New York's legislators refuse to give judges a pay raise unless they can get one themselves.
But legislators, resentful that the Governor's accord required their approval, refused to approve it.
Again, the legislators refused to call a convention to determine the state's course in the war.
When he didn't, the legislators refused to give Governor Franklin any more money to run his government.
When he goes to Congress to lobby, conservative legislators refuse to see him.
Farm-state legislators refused last week to even allow the tariff issue on the House agenda.
Although there were far fewer sovereign countries in 1902 than today, Congress's practical legislators refused to fund so ambitious a project.
But in June, the state's top legislators refused to approve the project.
Both black independent and white liberal legislators refused to back the bill, fearing to challenge Daley's stronghold on the police force.
Yet our downstate legislators refused to recognize this fact.