refuse

He asks her to sue for divorce, but Aurora refuses, raging that doing so would mean her life as she knows it would be over.

Sure, the Republican Party still had a large and resentful voter base that refused to die off or shut up, but its demographic was aging and increasingly irrelevant, or so it seemed.

"It's like, refusing to order Ubers, being so annoying about the cheque at every single meal... Seriously? I'm going to lose it."

In the southern town of Mangochi, they refused to be interviewed except to say, as they walked away, that preying on desperate motorists was the only way to survive.

Mandelson refused, and after a "furious" Sir Keir read the emails on Wednesday night, a final decision to sack him was taken on Thursday morning.