For months, it has refused Western entreaties to halt the fighting in Chechnya and begin serious negotiations with Chechen leaders.

Despite his incapacitation, he refused entreaties to turn over temporary command of the army to his second-in-command, Maj.

They gave him a standing ovation and refused entreaties from the headmaster to sit down the day he left.

"She scorned TV punditry and refused repeated entreaties to join the press panels and perform for the cameras."

Following the Cardassian withdrawal, he refused numerous entreaties to come home by the provisional government.

The company refused several entreaties from Wall Street financiers and other agencies to create an employee stock ownership plan that would protect it from a hostile takeover.

Thomas has refused entreaties from a series of deans at Yale to sit for a portrait for the school.

Denis Dillon, the county district attorney, has refused entreaties to run.

He said that he had repeatedly refused American entreaties for "a common withdrawal" from the treaty and had tried to preserve it.

But he refused entreaties to stay.