Congress, aroused by the press, wisely refused to fund it.

He invited the queens ashore, with the intention of holding them to ransom, but they wisely refused.

Her son wisely refused to meet her eyes, but made a display of a yawn that was only part act.

Haig wisely refused to do this until he was fully prepared.

The Bush administration wisely refused to link the two issues.

South needed entries to dummy, and East wisely refused to win the queen or the jack.

Congress wisely refused to include a pre-emption provision in legislation it adopted last year.

The Supreme Court wisely refused to impose a more clinical 20th-century definition.

In this instance, it was the Senate that wisely refused to go along.

Kiyama wisely refused the offer in my letter that Mariko gave him.