The senators and general deputies, using their constitutional prerogatives, refused to grant permission for the travel.

That lame-brained deputy refuses to allow us to do something about dinner.

Many deputies, he said, refused to talk to or work with him.

The deputies attended the meeting without the go-ahead from their party leaders, and refused to comment on the meeting's aims.

A sheriff's deputy refused to let them past the parking area in front of the Wiesba- den.

The deputy refused, believing that Dean was innocent as well.

In protest, 57 deputies refused to take part in a vote that they called premature and dangerous.

Angered by the proposal, 27 pro-Moscow deputies refused to take part in the vote.

Christian deputies refused to comment to reporters, saying they had first to study what was relayed from Damascus.

Lawrence and his deputy refused to send Acadians to the area for fear of their influence on the local population.