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  1. Refusing

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of refusing in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of refusing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of refusing in a Sentence

  1. Noah Bookbinder:

    It's disappointing that the man who promised to 'drain the swamp' just took a massive step away from transparency by refusing the release the White House visitor logs that the American people have grown accustomed to accessing over the last six years and that provide indispensable information about who is seeking to influence the president, the Obama administration agreed to release the visitor logs in response to our lawsuits, and despite the Trump administration's worry over 'grave national security risks and concerns,' only positives for the American people came out of them.

  2. John Walke:

    The EPA is allowing more harmful air pollution to be sent from big polluters in one state to neighboring states, refusing to control the pollution, then lying about what is an obvious rollback, the EPA's absurd to pretend this so-called' guidance' doesn't change what's acceptable : the purpose of the rollback memo is to let upwind states pollute more and refuse to control harmful smog and soot they emit into neighboring states.

  3. Alexander Navarro:

    According to newspaper reports, people just basically mocked the mask order. There was widespread opposition and defiance -- people refusing to wear their masks.

  4. Sally Yates:

    I never thought that I'd be saying,' Yeah, go Liz Cheney.' But I am. And again, isn't it a sad commentary that we're cheering Liz Cheney on for simply telling the truth and for refusing to be silent when others are not ?

  5. Stephen Butler Leacock:

    The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to commit oneself.

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