Rice Appears to Soften Stance on Latin America Aid Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice indicated that the United States would look to resume military assistance to nations cut off from aid for refusing to shield Americans in international court.
He referred to her as a crossdresser, called her "man," refused to let her shield her face from the sun, and made fun of her clothes and makeup.
A1 U.S. Aid Cuts Causing Strain Aid cuts for countries that refused to sign agreements to shield Americans from the International Criminal Court are generating resentment, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean, home to 12 nations that have been penalized, officials in seven countries said.
For months, years even I refused to lower my shield and get in line.
The Swiss senate refused to lift parliamentary immunity shielding him from prosecution for those 1997 remarks, which were mailed to every household in the country.
Russian officials, seeking to shield the crew, refused to say where the plane went down; the Chechens said a hunt for the "pilot-terrorist" was under way.
Yet the courts, including the Supreme Court, in the landmark 1915 case Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio, refused to afford movies the shield they needed protection under the First Amendment.
On the next Raw on June 2, Batista quit WWE in the storyline as Triple H, in wanting to continue the feud with the Shield, refused to grant Batista a one-on-one match for the WWE World Heavyweight title.
Soto lived there for years, his favorite memory the night when police officers, clad in helmets and carrying shields, refused to advance beyond a certain point.
The same report says the LTTE used civilians as human shields, refused to allow people to leave conflict areas and forcibly recruited adults and children as young as 14 to fight.
But in 1997, Mr. Shields said, "the record company refused to pay for any engineers or anything".
