America has refused to strike a deal with Mexico to let in more legal migrants.
But the electoral tribunal disagrees, and has refused to strike him from its lists.
When it came to the second single, lightning refused to strike twice.
The State Supreme Court unanimously refused to strike from the November general election ballot a referendum to ban same-sex marriages.
Yet the Army leadership is refusing to strike at the heart of the Taliban command in Baluchistan Province.
Actually, the agency proposed two or three more, but after the embassy bombing, Pentagon officials refused to strike them.
It has a say in educational appointments, can punish teachers who refuse to strike, decides who teaches where, and insists on guaranteed jobs for all teaching graduates.
"We refused to strike," she adds, "but it was a big thing to refuse to do what your union told you to do.
In one agonizing scene, the father allows himself to be beaten, refusing to strike back as he shields Eddy from his older brother's drunken rage.
