refuse to recognize something

She was a woman of power, though her culture refused to recognize it.

Crime's cause was lost, and only one man refused to recognize it.

I am not surprised that you refused to recognize me.

When he sees her again at a party, she refuses to recognize him.

Mexico refused to recognize Texas as an independent country, but the major nations of the world did.

When this woman became pregnant, her husband refused to recognize the boy as his son.

Many of the world's governments will refuse to recognize the election's results.

When the natural father of the child, a married man, refused to recognize the baby as his son, the young mother drowned herself.

It was as if they refused to recognize the codes.

They refused to recognize that 70 percent of the families who would have benefited make less than $75,000 a year.