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• And the reason for this refusal is also clear: the Obama Administration wants to retain the power to torture, to conduct "paramilitary operations" with secret armies and single assassins, to carry out mass, illegal surveillance of the population with no legal accountability, to do "whatever it takes" to keep the machine of war and domination churning at full strength. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
• For Israelis, that refusal translates as a denial of any Jewish connection to the land, which in turn means that the conflict is still open. —  The American Prospect Articles
• Next to the cruelty of such a refusal was the meanness of those who submitted to it Circumstances empowered this nation to have acted with such firmness as to compel the Americans to relax their obstinacy in this particular. —  The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816
• As such a refusal was a crime, the ephors said he should not reign any longer, and named Cleombrotus king in his stead Illustration: Cleombrotus and Chilonis Leonidas, who had led a selfish, pleasure-loving life, was now forsaken by every one except his daughter, Chi-lo´nis, who gave up her husband and the throne in order to console her unfortunate father. —  The Story of the Greeks
• This refusal was the first denial of the king's prerogative; only the authority of Parliament had been resisted before. —  History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6)

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