They invited me to dinner and I thought it would be churlish to refuse.
The management reserve the right to refuse entrance.
She's a strict vegetarian and refuses to eat any poultry or fish.
The managing director refused to divulge how much she earned.
He refused to say anything on the grounds that he might incriminate himself.
While refusing the role of narrator, he does not accept that of cultural critic either.
Finally, we turn to observable indicators of the cost to the president of refusing the slate of cabinet appointments proposed by the prime minister.
There might be reason to probe a little further with a surrogate decisionmaker who is refusing pain medications on behalf of a patient.