When two elders refused to accept the Presbytery decision, they were immediately suspended.

The young Japanese are losing their identity, and the elders refuse to change even slightly, clinging to the past and destroying the nation's growth.

The elders of Morghan, in a remarkable show of courage, refused to let insurgents operate.

Manolios appeals to the villagers to help the refugees, but the elders refuse.

The elders refuse to pay Eva, so like the piper, she trots off with their children.

'The elders will refuse your request,' said Ban, eventually.

The elders, Afghans in Gardez say, refused.

As I slid through the door, I saw her looking at me with a misery that her elders refused to admit.

The loss drove him mad, and when his elders refused to provide him with another dragon, Galbatorix set out to topple the Riders.

When the elders refused, Lyman stepped forward to make the journey, despite his wife being ill with a three-day old child and only three days of food.