1.   The president refused to accept the authority of the state court when it tried to keep black students out of the University of Alabama.

2.   The president refused to reveal the terms of the peace agreement to the press.

3.   But at the same time the president refused to listen to the more ambitious suggestions emanating from London.

4.   Although Clinton and Jordan have denied the allegations, the president has refused to discuss his relationship with Lewinsky.

5.   Attempts to negotiate peace failed when the former president, Ernesto Zedillo, refused to endorse agreements that had been reached between the Zapatistas and government mediators.

6.   According to a well-informed Russian journalist, Yastrzhembsky told Zyuganov on Thursday that the president will refuse to sign the document.

7.   But Starr, determined to get something on him after four years of fruitless investigation, guessed correctly that for political reasons the president would not refuse to testify.

8.   But the president flatly refused, declaring that they would sleep upstairs in their own bed.

9.   But the president has thus far refused, setting the stage for a heated political showdown with the legislature, which has the power to unseat him.

10.   But the president refused, they said, and agreed to have the testimony videotaped.