31.   The request was turned down without explanation.

32.   The wheels of imagology turn without having any effect on history.

33.   Those shots again drove McNeeley to the mat with a thud as Tyson turned away without emotion.

34.   This time, it was everything around Isringhausen that appeared stuck on a spin cycle, a game that tossed and turned without reason.

35.   With the drummer Steve Gadd mooring a band whose expertise could match that of any NASA crew, Clapton could turn inside without worrying about any missteps.

36.   Again, they were turned back without explanation.

37.   After Laurent Audiot of Marius and Janette lost his only star last year, he went to Michelin but was turned away without an answer.

38.   But a request for a meeting Monday was turned down without explanation.

39.   Hours before she was to die, the U.S. Supreme Court turned down without comment an emergency request to halt the execution.

40.   In London, Gen. Sir Charles Guthrie said all British Harriers turned back without dropping their weapons, as did other allied aircraft with them.