Al Thani family formally refuses to confirm or deny the rumors circulating over the art acquisitions of these past years.

Quebec formally refused to accept the new Constitution, although it is still bound by it in practice.

In prison Blyukher refused to confess and was never formally tried.

The second supply mission was never cleared by the Russians and Stalin formally refused permission on 2 October 1944.

Barnala refused formally to recommend the imposition of central rule.

He noted recently that 6,500 men - about one-half of 1 percent of the total call-up - formally refused national service in 1989.

How will the Commission react if the Council formally refuses to accept the directive's introduction of criminal sanctions?

Upon the court's ruling, Data formally refuses to undergo the procedure.

But John now formally refused to accept the long list of demands which they forwarded to him at Oxford.

Norway, which formally refused an invitation, sent a low-level observer to the talks, according to sources at the meeting.