persistent refusal

collocation in English

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persistent
adjective
uk
/pəˈsɪs.tənt/us
/pɚˈsɪs.tənt/
lasting for a long time or difficult to get ...
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refusal
noun[C or U]
uk
/rɪˈfjuː.zəl/us
/rɪˈfjuː.zəl/
the act of refusing to do or ...
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(Definition ofpersistentandrefusalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This included how to conduct house calls, and house-to-house surveys, how to takepersistentrefusal, how to 'gender' one's appeal, and how to close the sale.
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It is not known how many of these disallowances related topersistentrefusal.
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This single-mindedness, thispersistentrefusalto draw the appropriate conclusions from the initial outcome of the new approach has inevitably proved a costly business.
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This prisoner's health is well maintained, notwithstanding herpersistentrefusalto take food in the ordinary way.
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How often must such words be repeated and how often must such letters he exchanged before "persistentrefusal" is proved?
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Persistentrefusalcould result in a succession of sanctions.
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This prisoner has been temporarily discharged from prison on account of the ill-health he brought on himself bypersistentrefusalto take food.
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They can no longer dispute, despite theirpersistentrefusalto accept this earlier, that there is clear, statistically undeniable evidence of an upturn in orders.
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Indeed, it has suffered for that, having been attacked by both sides over its strong,persistentrefusal to espouse or to have anything to do with violence.
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I should have thought that a parent who came within this subsection forpersistentrefusalto discharge his responsibilities was not entitled to any greater protection than that appeal provision.
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This prisoner has been several times punished forpersistentrefusalto work, but he is not now under punishment, having been admitted yesterday to the prison hospital.
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What is the evidence that will be sufficient to provepersistentrefusalon the part of persons who are living together and have not actually deserted one another?
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Rehabilitation is open to all detainees, but the "hard case" or intractable detainees are so called because of theirpersistentrefusalto have anything to do with it.
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Hispersistentrefusalto install electric light saved the manor from being requisitioned by the occupying power.
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On these new terms, he defines self-deception as an agent'spersistentrefusalto spell out (explicitly acknowledge) some aspect of her engagement in the world.
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We have nothing but persistent refusals to deal with the question.
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Tiago's persistent refusals only make her want him even more.
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