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...ideologies and pilgrimage; he met with resistance from those “internal” agents whose interest relied on the then state of affairs. Similarly, when he refused to compromise with the political hostility of colonizers and their allies, he faced challenges. This makes the study of his movement a very special case in history of South Asia. A keen researcher thus needs to unders...

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...k manager John Hornbury is missing, as are securities and jewels from the bank’s vault. Gabriel Chestermarke and his nephew Joseph have unaccountably refused to call in the police to investigate the theft from their bank. When Betty Fosdyke shows up to visit her Uncle John, she finds it past belief that he would simply disappear – let alone that he would commit larceny. Un...

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...re was applied for women to give up their jobs to homecoming servicemen and return to their “natural” places as the keepers of the hearth, many women refused to do so, and indeed the huge loss of life on the battlefields of Europe and in the flu epidemic meant that marriage and motherhood were closed for many women. A generation of men was lost and so women turned willingl...

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...gorous campaign on investigating the anomaly-disappearances of 411 people who were never found. Mammoth parks such as Yellowstone and Yosemite openly refused to cooperate with Paulidis - even after receiving Freedom of Information Act requests. The storyline in my book takes aim at Yellowstone and Yosemite in a most realistic but fictional way. Like my main character is Da...

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...truth in it, as spoken by a man left for dead at the bloody battle of Les Quatre Chemins. Though ruined by confiscation, the staunch Vendeen steadily refused the lucrative posts offered to him by the Emperor Napoleon. Immovable in his aristocratic faith, he had blindly obeyed its precepts when he thought it fitting to choose a companion for life. In spite of the blandishme...

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...atre Chemins. Though ruined by confiscation, the staunch V endeen steadily refused the lucrative posts offered to him by the Emperor Napoleon. Immovab... ...ed the letters one by one, spelling the name of Longueville; but he firmly refused to show her anything more. This incident added to the intensity of ... ...may regard it as an honor to have got in.” In spite of urgent pressing, he refused politely but firmly to be kept to dinner, and put an end to the per...

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...lynices and his brother, Eteocles, decided to rule alternately, switching at the end of every year. However, at the end of his year as king, Eteocles refused to turn power over to his brother and exiled him, fulfilling his father's curse that the two brothers could not rule peacefully. In the action of the play, Polynices and a group of Argive soldiers are attacking Thebes...

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...ake her knees weak. Julia groaned inwardly and tried to stand. Her knees refused to cooperate and she stumbled. I’ll Do Anything ... ...the same thing. “For whatever bug crawled up your ass,” Julia snapped. She refused to be turned to jelly over that smoldering look he used so well.... ...o see I’m still getting my money’s worth.” Cade remained tightlipped and refused to be baited. Doug sighed. “What’s important is that you’re hap... ...approached her about buying it, Julia made the tough decision to sell. She refused to return to Hardin but she could not bring herself rent it out ... ...y concern was her release. Mrs. Turner did not ask about the victims, even refused to hear about the charges she was held on. She waved a dismis... ...he trial out of Hardin County? Where will you go?” “Is it true Mrs. Turner refused to be tested for drugs or alcohol? What is she trying to hide?” ... ...m inside. When Mike and Paige first offered the spare bedroom to them, she refused. Unsure how her parents’ house would affect her after such a lo... ...ed up her spoon and dipped it into her tea. Tears threatened again and she refused to cry anymore. “I made a huge mistake.” “What did he say?” Pa... ...lly, Julia smiled and nodded. A media machine, she avoided direct gazes and refused to comment with the subtle shake of her head. She dared not spe...

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...on attempt. By the time he died he was so despised that the government of Venezuela refused to allow his body onto its soil. It took 12 years of con... ... led to near bankruptcy. The Union states of Connecticut, Minnesota, and Wisconsin refused to pass constitutional amendments to confer suffrage on ... ...a Durban court, he was asked by the European magistrate to take off his turban; he refused and left the courtroom. A few days later, while trav... ...iracy - no oilman was found guilty of bribing (still, they paid damages). Sinclair refused to collaborate with a second Senate investigation and hi... ... had three children, the oldest of whom was being reared by her former maid. Verdi refused to allow her to accompany him on official travels, due t... ... aggressive war. The Land of Bavaria - an important constituent of West Germany - refused to ratify it because it deemed it too "centralistic" (no...

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... board had been trying to sign him up for a long-term contract and he had refused. They had even offered him more money, but he had hoped to publis... ... chief editor, the board had asked him to sign up for 5 years, but he had refused. He never invited any of his team members for dinner. He didn’t ... ...lt she had rejected them. They were teens, so they took it very hard and refused to join her. When she called, they didn’t want to talk to her. F...

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...fied the Jim Crow laws that made blacks second-class citizens. She simply refused to give up her seat for a white man. In her book, My Story, Rosa P... ...o learn by example. One day in 1944, more than a decade before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, Ruby and I were on our way back from church ...

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...was around her. 84 She does not know the cause of her husband’s death. She refused to disclose any symptoms with which her husband suffered or wh... ...interviewed on 01-08-2002 a lady who appeared to be in her late thirties. She refused to answer the questions on educational qualification, number o... ...on or hometown or number of children or her marital status on 10-8-2002. She refused to answer all these questions. She was having cold, could not ... ...ws about her sickness. She acknowledges that she does not know any work. She refused to give the type of work her father was doing. She said that f... ... HIV/AIDS she would come openly and say in public that she has HIV/AIDS. She refused to give any opinion about CSWs. Additional Observation: She ... ...not worried of her children, does not know the name of her parents-in-law and refused to say her husband’s name. She on the whole did not want to ta... ...er that when he was injured in the head due to a quarrel, the hospital people refused to stitch the wound on his head citing the excuse that he was ... ...al Observation: She did not answer several of the questions, and till the end refused to give her parents name or parents-in-law names. Her native p... ...and is also an agricultural labourer. They are from Royapettah, Chennai. She refused to give the names of her parents or her parents- in-law. She wa...

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...d Ruby once again to move to the rear of the bus. Once again Ruby stoutly refused. There was a standoff. The driver had two options: physically mov... ...roud of. I was reminded of the incident when, ten years later, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, t... ...uld never eat any others sold in the stores of Tallahassee. My taste buds refused any cookie that did not have the original taste of Aunt Della's. S... ...n gathering the ingredients to bake a batch. The experience My taste buds refused any cookie that did not have the original taste of Aunt Della's. ... .... I wanted to retain a small ownership stake in the compa­ ny, but Portola refused. Their negotiation tactics were to reduce their offers each time I... ...was to reject the Noname name, but a little voice said, "Remember how you refused to listen to the ideas of others in the past and fell flat on your...

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...she'd been coming down with something for the last several weeks that just refused to make a full-fledged Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 12 appe... ... haunches, something making her brave. Probably blind rage, cuz dammit she refused to be terrorized in her own house. Yeah, that's right. She'd been v... ...the concept alone was something he would relate to and appreciate. And she refused to let him off the hook that easily. "It was a TV show from the 70'... ...actually at the opposite end of the long mahogany dining room table as she refused to sit any closer and had moved to her current position earlier whe... ...it could not be! Mawla's grief over the loss of her mate was genuine. Kane refused to believe otherwise or that she had intentionally, maliciously sum... ...heromones in the air and the bizarreness of the situation as was he and he refused to have her under such Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 272 cir... ...nce and wanted to take back her words and slap her own self silly. But she refused to be cowed by her own fear and tactlessness. "I want to know what ...

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...eling he got from it. His wife, on the other hand, didn’t like the lake as much. Many times when he tried to bring her along she refused. This was v... ... watching the spliff glow while he puffed on it, his eyes turning into a deep red. Sometimes he’d pass it on to me but I always refused. He’d shake ...

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...’s kiss, and that one was quite ... reluctant. If what I ask of you now is refused, I will understand. Please, Claire. I want you to feel a man’s ... ... hostler. Gilbert continued as Erik’s valet and our majordomo. I initially refused a maid of my own, as I had enough of a challenge asking others t... ...No, that won’t be necessary.” With that, the girl flounced toward her gig, refused Michael’s offer of assistance to step up, and flicked her buggy ... ...ichael held my stirrup as I swung my leg over; I loathed the sidesaddle and refused to bother any further with it. Angel snorted as I settled my weig...

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...asure her deeds of splendor that are handed to me and weighed in grace. Eros refused to command the last assault of his golden arrows. When seen how t...

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...mber that little boy who wanted to attain earthly glory to realize his goal, but refused to use others to do it. I recall that youth who made consta...

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...ll aware of her condition, but had deliberately kept the knowledge to herself in case the Company refused to send her abroad with her husband. ‘Wel... ... turn on her like this? True, she had been the first to raise a barrier between them when she had refused him his conjugal rights but in the days an... ...is was part Huron, North American Indian from his mother’s side and like all colonials, my father refused to dilute our French blood by marriage to ... ...ask her captor, but her words were muffled by the cloth over her head and he didn’t hear her, or refused to answer. The erratic movement of the carr... ...by the British Army. These men were now mutineers and rallied behind their King of Oudh, who had refused to sign the treaty surrendering his State ...

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...ve in the queue to the idling taxis and my mood was hardly elevated when the driver refused to turn on the meter. “I will make you a special price” ... ...t was peeling exuberantly all over the mud-caked floor. The key fitted in but then refused to budge in either direction. Talk about inauspicious....