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Sentence Yes 'refuse the order' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when someone, typically in a professional setting, has given you an instruction which you choose not to follow. For example: "The manager refused to comply with the order from the corporate office."
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At one point, the prosecutor, Peter McClosky, asked the defendant: "What should a general do who received those orders?" General Krstic replied, "He should refuse the order".
He said he had been "the only person to refuse the order to use firearms", and that he had intervened to save five people about to be killed by a corporal.
Mr Kepiro said he had been "the only person to refuse the order to use firearms", and that he had intervened to save five people about to be killed by a corporal.
How would you have legal justification to refuse the order?
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He refused the order.
Why Officer Delacruz refused the order was unclear yesterday.
Notably, many P.U.K. units refused the order to stand down and fought the oncoming Iraqi units.
Ultimately, they refused the order, he said, and instead gave a popular sportsman's yell, "Fitness, culture, hoorah".
Ward refused the order and turned with the enemy, drawing his fire so his mates could get a good shot.
When Mr. Richardson refused the order, the president gave the order to the deputy attorney general, who also refused and resigned in protest.
Transcripts of recorded court hearings suggest that when the woman tried to serve Mr. Johnson, he refused the order — as did his lawyer a few weeks later.
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