Bree demands he bring it back to Tom but he refuses because Tom was rude.

When she is recognized and asked to perform Bart's voice in front of children, Cartwright refuses because it "freaks [them] out".

She is apparently old enough to be married, but she refuses any suitors because she desires Peter over all.

Bill refuses because one, his brothers are not allowed out of New York State and two, he knows Dave's pathological tendencies.

They refused me because asocial.

Earlier she refused it because her father was suffering from a serious illness, and she wanted her whole family to attend the award ceremony.

Ms. Cox's beautiful but bland Claudia doesn't refuse on those grounds - or because she's appalled by the emotional manipulation.

The US Navy refused to take part in all this, because the impossibility of radiation leaking outside the base.

Others were suspicious that Madoff refused requests for due diligence because his accountant-supposedly his brother-in-law-was the only one allowed to see the books.

Ivanchuk could not refuse the endgame because 16 . . . h6?