This may not seem serious, but it follows a series of deliberate refusals to pass bills that the government regarded as essential.

The climactic ending of the mime may signify not a pathetic defeat, but a conscious rebellion, man's deliberate refusal to obey.

The relative failure of cricket as a popular spectacle lay 'in the deliberate refusal of its administrators to modernize.

A hunger strike is a deliberate refusal to eat.

Maguire condemned what she considered Obama's deliberate refusal to meet with the Dalai Lama, calling it "horrifying."

It is thought that a deliberate refusal to put a victim's mind at rest when the accused has unwittingly frightened him is an assault.

This mix of styles was the result of Itagaki's deliberate refusal to constrain the game's creative process.

"The time has come when we must address the deliberate refusal of some graduate students."

A deliberate refusal to figure out how things can be made better.