Ninety years ago, while he was still governor of Massachusetts, Coolidge halted a police strike in Boston by refusing to concede on even small points.
Instead of leaving the weekend on a note of celebration, Democrats left in a tiff, with Ellis refusing to concede the close race before an audit of the vote was conducted.
In the meantime NBC is refusing to concede that Mr. Leno's departure to another network — as in ABC, in Mr. Kimmel's nightmare scenario — is a fait accompli.
(In the early hours of Wednesday, Foley was still refusing to concede defeat). In Colorado, with ninety-two per cent of the vote counted as of this writing, the Democratic incumbent John Hickenlooper was running slightly ahead of the Republican Bob Beauprez.
And we won seats -- as well as the presidency -- in 2000," Mr. McAuliffe said, refusing to concede that Mr. Gore lost.
Woods never let up in his match with Singh, refusing to concede an 18-inch putt on No. 4. Later, Singh congratulated Woods on the American victory, but because his match with Singh was still in progress, Woods kept the pleasantries short.
In the meantime, Abrams is refusing to concede.
Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux is refusing to concede in Georgia's 7th District, arguing that Republican Rep. Rob Woodall's 901-vote lead might shrink after more provisional ballots get counted.
Poulter is more than €500,000 adrift, but with three times that sum accruing to the winner here and next week at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai, the Englishman, who has halved the deficit to Stenson in the past two weeks, is not only refusing to concede defeat, he is backing himself to reel in his man.
