The area remained largely undeveloped for thirty more years, as local landowners refused to sell their large estates for building.

When the government almost doubled the land tax, the large landowners refused to pay.

However, the landowners of Courland disliked that and even refused to follow the regulations of the Council of the Duke.

By 1950, the landowner of the Washington Avenue property refused to renew the lease.

The landowner has refused to renew the lease, and Tokyo has been unable to go through the procedures to force him to renew it.

Local landowners refused to made investments so long as their property remained subject to condemnation.

But these landowners refused to repair the choir of the church, which eventually fell into ruin.

Though the university has been buying property in the area for years, several large commercial landowners have refused to sell.

The landowners vehemently refused to pay what they saw as a unilaterally-imposed tax meant to carry out an objective they strongly disagreed with.

Many passengers, however, refused to board the cars and adjacent lanes, and many landowners refused the locomotive to pass over their territory.