He had infuriated fellow Tennessee Democrats by going rogue on western land policy, as well as refusing to vote for Jackson's Indian Removal bill, and had lost a hotly contested fight for reelection.
This involves action such as refusing to cover for absent staff members and not invigilating exams.
He remembered passing up a Grant Wood painting as well as refusing to pay $300 for a Jasper Johns in the late 1950s.
Peale did his best to make McCulloh's position difficult, such as refusing to accept bullion for coins except from McCulloh personally.
Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.
Specifically, Mrs. Clinton criticized the Bush administration for failing to provide adequate money for government family planning programs, as well as for refusing to approve over-the-counter sales of Plan B, an emergency contraceptive.
The party has run afoul of the E.U. for allegedly politicizing the judicial system and the country's media, as well as for refusing to take in asylum seekers.
Fifty-year-old Rusby's routine has changed fairly little during his 30 years as a refuse collector for Westminster council and, more recently, Veolia, a waste, water and energy management company.
Once an untouched landscape of white oak and shagbark hickory, it now belonged to Consol Energy and served as the refuse area for the Bailey Mine Complex, the largest underground coal mine in the United States.
Lawyers for HCA as well as for individual executives refused to allow company employees to testify while fraud charges against individuals remained a possibility.
In 2011, federal borrowing costs climbed as congressional Republicans refused for a time to increase the federal government's statutory borrowing limit, raising doubts about the government's ability to repay its debts.
