Khartoum has refused repeated efforts to establish a 20,000-strong UN peacekeeping force in the province, and on Thursday it rejected the most recent UN proposal to send in troops.
Most of the international community, despite French and American efforts, has refused to recognize Morocco's illegal annexation of the territory.
Mr. Bush has refused to join that effort, abandoning his campaign pledge to limit carbon emissions and renouncing the 1997 Kyoto Protocol committing industrialized nations to mandatory reductions of carbon and other greenhouse gases.
Walmart has refused to join that effort.
The leader of the 17,000-member Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Manuel Marulanda, has refused to budge despite the efforts by the top government negotiator, Camilo Gomez, that are widely described as intense.
The issue at hand was the fact that despite the encouragement of the UN, and despite our world's recent and evolving lessons of cultural sensitivity and economic equitability, the UK has refused to return to diplomatic efforts regarding the status of UK and Argentinian claims to the Malvinas Islands, commonly referred to as the Falkland Islands.
But Mr. Ferguson has refused to join that bipartisan effort.
Iran has refused and insists that the effort is for peaceful, civilian purposes.
The U.S. side, led by the special envoy Marc Grossman, has refused to end the drone effort and so far has shown no inclination to apologize for the airstrike.
In Portland, Ore., the acting police chief has refused to participate in the effort, saying it conflicted with state laws that bar local police from questioning immigrants when they are not suspected of a crime.
