I refuse to consent to that plan.

I refuse to be called anything besides Your Highness .

I refuse to be part of the problem.

The patrol guard service. Patrol work.

I won't confuse my child by hurting him and trying to demand respect in return.

I refuse to recognise this decree by the king, I will keep writing I am Bahraini on any application form.

Usually I say no right away, but some of them come with pedigree and they sound well intentioned and they get you for at least one or two meetings.

Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

This is no doubt a good idea, but as is my nature, I reject the idea of fashion and competition. Does the fact that Hajji So and so s household is handing out things mean that we have to?

Director Shah Hosseini has dismissed the criticism. I reject any accusation that this film is against Iranian or Islamic morals, he told ISNA news agency.

I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

It is very often stated in this room that the security interests of States are of a special character. This is true, but this cannot be used as a pretext for inflexibility or either my position or nothing behaviour.

I refuse to accept the view that Ukraine is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of communism s legacy that we can never see the bright daybreak of peace and true European unity.

But I reject the notion that a PRI victory would automatically restore the status quo ante, as if Mexico, its links to the world, and the PRI itself had stood still throughout the last 12 years.

But for years I denied this intuition, and so I became a Wall Street lawyer, of all things, instead of the writer that I had always longed to be partly because I needed to prove to myself that I could be bold and assertive too.

I refused to be a commodity, a cheap article traded by the people of religion, politics and the media. I refuse to go back to running after gas canisters, waiting for electricity in the long winter nights, to the screaming and wailing of the political parties, and religious calcification. Gaza is a place of cheap talk and bombast.

I am neither gay, nor Ghanaian, but I have spent considerable time in Ghana and I reject the argument heard in other parts of Africa as well that Western notions of sexuality have perverted Africans.