Iain Duncan Smith refused membership when it was offered to him.

After being refused membership, Howard vowed that the race course would become a cemetery.

This association was refused membership in the World Organization, but Scouting continued nonetheless.

Unfortunately, she was refused membership due to her ongoing interest in Buddhism.

We still believe that, in the circumstances, we had no sustainable reason for refusing membership to two companies.

Tessa secretly wants to be in the group but she has no musical talent and is refused membership.

Women had been refused membership of the society until 1969.

Country clubs usually limit memberships to a few hundred people and they may refuse membership if the applicant does not meet certain qualifications.

But they said they occasionally heard that churches refused membership to interracial couples.

The decision was protested by Israel, who was refused membership to the same committee in 1982.