He refused several prizes from the Spanish government, in protest at the treatment of the Catalan language and culture in Spain.

When Bonhoeffer was offered a parish post in eastern Berlin, he refused it in protest of the nationalist policy.

He refused his vice-presidential and senatorial pensions in protest over the two coups that cut each of those terms short.

The city cited Gabriel for violating a city ordinance prohibiting signs from public rights of way, and he was jailed for refusing in protest to pay the fine.

By the anecdotal evidence, refused the position in protest against the policies of the (supposedly reactionary) Minister Kasso.

In 1998 he refused an honorary doctorate from Oxford University, in protest at its acceptance of funding for a chair from press baron Rupert Murdoch.

On 12 February, seven stokers refused duty in protest over the poor quality of food being provided to the sailors aboard.

Order of Friendship of Peoples (offered in 1993, but refused in protest against the war in Chechnya)

(Wanger refused the award in protest of the film's absence in the Best Picture category.)

In 1968, she signed the "War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.