When the local sought to organize there, the management insisted on an election and refused card-check recognition.

Zoos which have no potential to come up to the prescribed standards and norms may be refused recognition and asked to close down.

Since its inception in 1992, the Authority has evaluated 347 zoos, out of which 164 have been recognized and 183 refused recognition.

Having been refused recognition by his Local Tribunal, he was called up for military service in 1942.

The successful slave revolution in Haiti alarmed the United States leadership, and the country refused diplomatic recognition for decades.

Negotiators often use shuttle diplomacy when the one or both of two principals refuses recognition of the other prior to mutually desired negotiation.

The first emperor, Augustus, resolutely refused recognition as a monarch.

The people, weary of war, did not refuse official recognition of the landholdings they had occupied during the fighting.

He knew that a yearning glance fell upon him, now and then, through a film of tears, but he refused recognition of it.

The other northern factions were disgusted enough to refuse recognition.