"refuse audience" is not a correct and usable sentence in written English.
To use "refuse" in a sentence, you would pair it with an object, such as "refuse the request". For example: "The Prime Minister refused the request for an audience."
Rule 46 of the court's procedural rules (pdf) states that "A chamber may, after a warning, impose sanctions against or refuse audience to a counsel if, in its opinion, his conduct remains offensive or abusive, obstructs the proceedings, or is otherwise contrary to the interests of justice".
Armed with their testimonials, he sought to confront Bentinck but was refused audience.
The irony of this is that actually neither of Britain's ambassadors to China before the war were refused audiences for declining to kowtow.
When Mr. Rubio refused, the audience booed loudly.
In 1975 Alexander Solzhentitsyn was refused an audience with the American president at the White House.
Headland has comic smarts enough to venture both filthily revisionist readings of My So-Called Life and riffs on the Potsdam conference, while refusing her audience any comforting safety nets.
For "The Ladies Who Lunch," a great number that will always be owned by Elaine Stritch, and is sung well enough here by Barbara Walsh, Doyle avoids both invidious comparison and showstopping expectation by strategically running the song directly into the ensuing dialogue, thus refusing the audience a chance to respond.
Both embassies were refused an audience with the shogun (the Dutch failure being variously attributed to Nuyts's "haughty demeanour and the antics of his travel companions" and "Hamada's machinations at the court" ).
If audiences refuse to outright reject Superman breaking someone's neck in a public place and everything Jared Leto did as the Joker, they'll be glad to see Wonder Woman and Justice League more than once.
The Glasgow audience simply refuse to clap and cheer after the end of the set.
But, for the rest of us, there are reasons to abstain, either out of principle — to respect the dead, to restore a bit of their privacy, to refuse to be an audience in a staged spectacle — or because it's just too awful.
