Sentence examples for ben refused from inspiring English sources

Ben refused to believe that his beautiful son was that emotionally troubled.

Ben refused to co-operate when she required the prisoners to prepare business plans for their eventual release.

When Ben-Yaakov refused, Hagai pointed to the hiding place in the coop and asked him to remove the materials after he was arrested.

When Ben-Hur refuses, he is himself falsely accused of an attack on the Roman governor and is sold into slavery as a chained oarsman on a warship.

But when Ben-Hur refuses to assist childhood friend Massala Stephen Boydd), now an ambitious Roman politician, in rounding up imperial dissidents, Massala frames him for murder.

But Hassouna ben Abdelmalek for Tunisia refused to take his king, a shrewd move.

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the uncompromising inventor of modern Hebrew, refused to speak to his wife in any other language, despite the fact that she could not understand it.

Another irony: despite his brutal reign, France had welcomed Baby Doc when he originally escaped his homeland, but France refused entry to Tunisia's equally repugnant Ben-Ali.

For the part of Commodus, Mr. Phoenix did some research into the period but refused to watch tapes of classic toga epics like "Ben-Hur" and "Spartacus".

Prior to the confrontation, Menachem Begin, the leader of the Irgun and a future prime minister, had refused orders to turn the ship and its cargo over to Ben-Gurion and the Israeli government.

J. C. Leyland: I'm vexed to find local ben/t on getting my wine bar licence refused.