This section was included to prevent either chamber from blocking legislation through its refusal to meet.

He gained their respect through his refusal to quit in the face of combat.

This can also be conveyed through her refusal to become a nurse so that she would not have to follow the orders of "higher powers," such as doctors.

The one man who, through his refusal of the Optimum, had brought about all that had followed in the vacuum of the Optimum's collapse.

Boyi and Shuqi made their protest widely known through their refusal to eat the produce of Zhou, (the traditional "Five Grains").

Ibuka, we learn, almost bankrupted the company through his stubborn refusal to abandon an unworkable technology for color television.

Some protest leaders said that the city, through its refusal to grant the Central Park permit, in effect undermined the main group that was trying to work within the system.

Half way through her carefully worded refusal she was aware that Valentijn was bending down and reading it over her shoulder.

Through its refusal, Parliament will let it be known that we are no longer prepared to cover for goings-on which deserve to be highlighted, rather than concealed.

Gaby had become the leader of the expedition through Cirocco's refusal to have anything to do with it.