But when asked about those comments at his own appearance, Mr. Cuomo refused repeatedly to agree with them — or, for that matter, to disagree.
He refused repeatedly to say at what price Boerhinger Ingelheim sells nevirapine to Senegal or Uganda, saying, "Affordability is an issue, but not the major issue".
The rulers of the biggest Arab nation, Egypt, have refused repeatedly to receive Hamas leaders, who would always be met by intelligence officers or by some extremely low level official.
They go bumping from door-to-door, getting refused repeatedly, their emotional energy draining each month, their resilience eroding slowly but surely.
She told the court she had refused repeatedly but had been scared of what her husband would have done if she had continued to refuse to drive.
And like Jahjah he has refused repeatedly to denounce Hamas or Hizbollah, excoriating, instead, people like the so-called "Danish cartoonists" whose caricatures of Mohammed in 2006 inspired attacks on Danish embassies, boycotts and violent demonstrations across the Middle East.
