Then, the day before Ms. McDowell was to drive him there, her stepdaughter again refused, leaving no time for alternate arrangements.
MOSCOW -- Russia disclosed on Wednesday that Russian and Chinese envoys had pressed Iran's government to accept a United Nations plan on uranium enrichment during meetings in Tehran early this month but that Iran had refused, leaving "less and less room for diplomatic maneuvering".
They refused to leave for hours and ransacked an office when they did leave.
When David was born, Sergeant Smith had refused to leave for a deployment -- at risk of a reprimand.
She said a friend went into labor while watching the Oakland game at home, and refused to leave for the hospital until after the final buzzer.
Jeff Banta, 46, Yerington, Nevada Jeff Banta was one of the final four occupiers who refused to leave for two weeks after the rest of the militia members surrendered, were arrested or escaped without consequence.
The marvellous fable at the heart of it feels like a twisted fairy tale (Dickens was friends with Hans Christian Andersen, who showed up at Dickens's country house, in 1857, and refused to leave for five weeks).
Then there's the story of the six-foot-three German tourist who arrived at Hobbiton dressed as, well, a very tall hobbit, who felt so at home in one of the hobbit holes there that he squashed himself into it and refused to leave for 12 hours.
Saturday, hundreds of protesters had taken refuge in a nearby mosque that for most of the day had served as a field hospital and morgue, refusing to leave for fear of arrests.
The session ends with a prescription: Ali Smith's 2011 novel, "There but for the", a darkly amusing book about a man who escapes a dinner party by locking himself in the host's spare bedroom, which he refuses to leave for months.
