Sentence examples for refused his demand from inspiring English sources

When the shah refused his demand for control of the armed forces in 1952, Dr. Mossadegh resigned, only to be reinstated in the face of popular riots.

One man, she said, told her that he once drove a woman out of town when she refused his demand for sex after he gave her crack.

He was fiercely loyal and so pugnacious that he was once arrested for hitting a photographer who refused his demand to stop taking pictures of the filming of a Koch campaign commercial.

The president is now engaged in a high-stakes standoff with Indonesia's most prominent general, Wiranto, who has refused his demand to resign as coordinating minister for security affairs.

On Sunday, President Abdurrahman Wahid is to return from a two-week foreign trip during which the country's most prominent general, Wiranto, refused his demand to resign as coordinating minister for security affairs.

Michael S. Dell's effort of several months to buy the company that bears his name was thrown into jeopardy on Wednesday, as a special committee of the computer maker's board refused his demand to change the voting rules on the huge buyout.

Bruce Willis walked away from The Expendables 3 after Sylvester Stallone refused his demands for a $1m £644.9kk) a day wage, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Mr. Sadr, by contrast, withdrew from the government earlier this year after it refused his demands to set a date for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.

Julius Baer, which has denied its Cayman branch was used for tax dodging, says Mr. Elmer waged a "campaign of personal intimidation and vendetta" against the bank after it refused his demands for financial compensation following his 2002 dismissal.

He began building the parochial school system when New York's Protestant politicians refused his demands that they purge the public-school texts of anti-Catholic and anti-Irish prejudice.

However, she refuses his demand that she stop drinking.