Meanwhile, the decade's surviving icons refuse to fade.
As for Jessica, whose breach with her sister Lady Mosley has never been repaired, and who alone of the surviving Mitfords refused to cooperate in the writing of this book, she is treated throughout with a curious blend of patronizing sympathy and open aggression.
Even if a number of people still speak it, they might live far apart and so not converse with one other – or in the case of the pre-Columbian Mexican language Ayapaneco, the last two surviving speakers refused to talk to each other for years.
Yet surviving family members refuse to take "no" for an answer.
Again, Arthur survived and refused to make any statement to the police.
Mr Aziz, who has three relatives among the hostages, who are all reportedly men, says he survived after refusing to open his door.
Although the courts had first ruled as invalid an election in February called by Ms Yingluck and then ordered her to step down for supposedly abusing her power, the Pheu Thai caretaker government that survived her refused to resign.
The social revolution embodied by Peronism created a new society that took on a life of its own and that, even though it had no way to survive, simply refused to die (Halperín Donghi 1994).
Next, Walters checked on a man who had hunkered down, survived and refused to leave.
In addition, the surviving Persians were refused entry into Dara since, according to Simocatta, Persian custom forbade entrance to fugitives.
The Parkland in question is the city in Florida, thrust into the spotlight by the 2018 high school school shooting that claimed 17 lives and kept in the spotlight by surviving students who refused to stay quiet about politicians who substitute prayers for action and whose best suggestion for our gun problem is more guns.
