1.   They won the day in December when magistrates refused a licence for the premises.

2.   The original application from Anchor, which is building a similar complex in Gateshead, was refused by magistrates in December.

3.   The statement said that, having considered the application, the magistrates had refused to issue the summons.

4.   A French magistrate recently refused to conduct a marriage when young Muslim French women showed up draped in Algerian flags.

5.   Over the weekend, magistrates refused to keep scores of the immigrants in custody pending expulsion because police had improperly made out warrants for them.

6.   Over the weekend, magistrates refused to let the immigrants continue to be kept in custody in Vincennes pending expulsion because the police had improperly prepared warrants for them.

7.   A magistrate refused to grant bail, saying she could tamper with evidence.

8.   A magistrate refused to proceed after finding that Ebatarinja did not know the charges against him, could not communicate with defense lawyers and could not follow the proceedings.

9.   A federal magistrate refused Tuesday to free on bond a Spanish aristocrat wanted in his homeland in the kidnapping of a wealthy jeweler.