11.   In Germany, for example, the Greens had to swallow hard when Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder refused their demands for the immediate mothballing of all nuclear power plants.

12.   Libya has refused all demands to expedite the men to face charges, insisting that any trial would have to be held in a neutral third country.

13.   Navarro-Valls said that the pope had also refused a demand from the official Chinese church that the Taiwanese flag be removed from the Youth Day celebrations.

14.   Niyazov is a former Communist Party chief who has refused incessant demands from the West and the International Monetary Fund that he privatize his centrally controlled economy.

15.   One man, she said, told her that he once drove a woman out of town when she refused his demand for sex after he gave her crack.

16.   Price argued that, legally, the confiscation occurred in the United States, because that is where the government refused his initial demand for return of the items.

17.   Rao has refused demands that he resign as Congress leader, hinting that other party leaders will go down with him.

18.   Still, he has refused demands for his resignation.

19.   The al-Qaida fighters, Arabs who had been admitted to the hospital after being injured by U.S. air strikes in Kandahar, refused demands that they surrender.

20.   The Armed Islamic Group said French authorities had refused demands to release prisoners charged with involvement in a terrorist bombing campaign in exchange for the monks.