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unusual facts about refuse-derived fuel



Abbas Suan

During international football matches, Suan is one of two Arab players who refuse to sing during the playing of Hatikvah, Israel's national anthem, because it mentions only Jews.

Alberta Senate nominee election, 2012

Independent Link Byfield panned the decision and has stated he would refuse an appointment without a new mandate.

Belchertown State School

In 1975, Belchertown was sued once again for denying its patients the right to vote (this was one of the first disability-related voting rights cases in the United States), and in 1977 a case was brought against the school on behalf of a 67-year-old severely retarded man with leukemia to determine if a court-appointed guardian ad litem could refuse treatment on his behalf.

Ben Salmon

When President Woodrow Wilson ordered a draft, Salmon was one of a number of Americans to refuse to cooperate.

Binary blob

In the Linux kernel development community, Linus Torvalds has made strong statements on the issue of binary-only modules, asserting: "I refuse to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module", and continuing: "I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules, it's THEIR problem".

Blazing Combat

There were also problems from the armed forces (at the time a major purchaser of B&W comic magazines) ... began to refuse to sell Blazing Combat on their bases or PXs, due to its perceived 'anti-war' stance".

Brecht Forum

On October 6, 2008, a discussion panel “An Offer We Can’t Refuse?” was held, on the financial crisis included Naomi Klein, Arun Gupta, Frances Fox Piven, William Greider, and Doug Henwood.

Campaign for Better Health Care

A case that originates from CBHC’s helpline goes to the Supreme Court in 1998, which rules in 2002 in favor that no HMO can refuse to allow you to get a second opinion.

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

As Lady Barbara is the (fictitious) sister of the Duke of Wellington (an anachronism, as the title was created in 1814 and he would have been Sir Arthur Wellesley at this time), Hornblower is in no position to refuse her request for passage to England.

China United Airlines

CIA, U.S embassy in China, and China United Airlines refuse to comment on this incident.

Crofter Hand Woven Harris Tweed Co Ltd v Veitch

The TGWU called on dockers in Stornoway, also TGWU members to refuse to handle the yarn imported to the island by the producers.

Deadly Little Christmas

When Taylor and Noel arrive, they find the bodies of all the recent victims seated at a table in a mockery of The Last Supper, and their mother and Devin, the latter claiming that Mrs. Merriman is the killer of their father and everyone else, and that she framed him due to being a misandrist; the girls at first refuse to believe Devin, until they notice the blood coating their mother's arms.

Denise Levertov

Also in response to the Vietnam War, Levertov joined the War Resisters League, and in 1968 signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the war.

Dennis Francis

1986 was another influential year when a chance meeting with Steve Shanes, the publisher of Blackthorne comics made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

Eco-Brick

Eco-brick, a plastic bottle stuffed with plastic refuse used as in-wall construction fill as advocated by environmental activist Susana Heisse

Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland

Falkland believed that his difficulties with the nobility had been largely due to the intrigues of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Adam, Lord Loftus, After the dissolution of the assembly of the nobility in 1627, he brought a charge against Loftus of malversation, and of giving encouragement to the nobility to refuse supplies.

Holger Voss

On October 26, 2006 the BGH decided to refuse the complaint from T-Online whereby the judgement from January 25, 2006 becomes law.

Huaca Prieta

He found many ruins and much refuse, including ceramics of the Guañape, Early Cupisnique and Cupisnique cultures.

Involuntary treatment

The case of Rennie v. Klein established that an involuntarily committed individual has a constitutional right to refuse psychotropic medication without a court order.

Jodi Long

In addition to her credited roles, Long appeared uncredited in a brief black-and-white cut-scene in the music video for Bizarre Love Triangle by the British group New Order, directed by American artist Robert Longo, in which she argues with E. Max Frye (where she emphatically declares "I don't believe in reincarnation because I refuse to come back as a bug or as a rabbit!").

John Aubrey Davis, Sr.

Davis's career as a civil-rights activist began in 1933, when he formed the New Negro Alliance with Belford Lawson, Jr. and N. Franklin Thorne in response to the white-owned businesses in African-American neighborhoods that would fire and/or refuse to hire African-American workers.

José María Yazpik

Upon graduating he was offered minor roles in youth soap operas on Televisa, which he wanted to refuse, however the exclusive contract with the station forced him to accept all the roles he was offered, and was additionally punished with two months without pay.He received his first major role on television in the soap opera The Dove in 1995, produced by José Rendón, which stopped production because of the tragic death of its protagonist, actor Gerardo Hemmer.

Joseph Storr Lister

He arranged for the town refuse to be spread over the dunes and then planted Acacia cyclops and Acacia cyanophylla between - this stopped movement of the sand and created a valuable source of fuel.

Judith Haspel

Along with fellow swimmers Ruth Langer and Lucie Goldner, she refused to compete at the Berlin Games in protest of Adolf Hitler, stating, "I refuse to enter a contest in a land which so shamefully persecutes my people." This angered Austrian sports authorities who banned her from competition.

Kowtow

Dutch ambassador Isaac Titsingh did not refuse to kowtow during the course of his 1794–1795 mission to the Imperial Court of Emperor Qianlong.

Layerthorpe

The Branch Line's sidings and the Corporation's premises have been replaced by a variety of industrial and retail units, although the refuse destructor's octagonal chimney (a Grade II listed building, approximately 55 metres high) has been preserved next to Morrisons supermarket on Foss Islands Road.

LGBT history in South Korea

On July 30, 2004, the Committee filed a formal complaint against the Incheon District Court's decision to refuse the recognition of same-sex marriages.

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Most of the German federal states (Länder) have each their own order of merit as well, with the exception of the Free and Hanseatic Cities of Bremen and Hamburg, which reject any orders (by old tradition their citizens, particularly former or present senators, will refuse any decoration in the form of an order.

Pharmacists for Life International

-- result unclear; still searching --> On April 16, 2001 in an appearance on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, Brauer acknowledged that she did not directly decline or refuse to fill the prescription but, rather, lied to the customer by saying the pharmacy was out of stock of the contraceptive in question (Micronor), which Brauer holds is designed to "terminate a human life that has already begun".

Recology

Among the program's alumni is Nathaniel Stookey, who composed Junkestra, a classical music composition for thirty instruments made out of the company's refuse.

Refusal to serve in the IDF

In 2005, as a reaction to the Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, a group called "Mateh Chomat Magen" (the name referring to Operation Defensive Shield) published a letter with 10,000 signatures of soldiers who signed a petition saying that they would refuse to uproot and remove Israeli settlements.

Refuse/Resist

A recording of this can be found on the DVD, The Song Remains Insane.

The title song, also included as a single off the album Chaos A.D., is one of the band's best-known songs and remains a concert staple to this day.

This video can be found on the VHS Third World Chaos, which was later released on the Chaos DVD.

Rigo Star

Notice that Rigo Star's name is sometimes misspelled "Ringo"; for example, in the liner notes of Paul Simon's The Rhythm of the Saints, as well as on the cover of Star's Ne refuse pas.

SA Waste Holdings

This one will involve providing of a total refuse removal service (Including round-collected refuse removal, street cleaning, servicing of garden sites, and servicing of informal settlements) for the Ivory Park area of Johannesburg.

Scott Sicko

Sicko stated that if he was not drafted in the 2010 NFL Draft, he would refuse to sign with any team, so that he could finish his studies.

Spotted hyenas in Harar

Written records indicate that spotted hyenas have been present in the walled Ethiopian city of Harar for at least 500 years, where they sanitise the city by feeding on its organic refuse.

Suona la tromba

De Giorgi then made the gesture of offering to abandon the project if Verdi agreed to write a new hymn to inaugurate a monument to the Battle of Legnano, knowing full well that Verdi would refuse.

The Cat Who Went to Heaven

The story says that the traditional belief in his time was that cats are supposedly cursed, because of their pride and sense of superiority, which apparently caused them to refuse to bow before the Buddha in his lifetime, and that this therefore means they are barred from achieving Nirvana.

The Monster Club

A movie director scouting locations for his next film pays a horrifying visit to an isolated, decrepit village, Loughville near Hillington, Norfolk, where the sinister residents refuse to let him leave.

Tom Mann

In 1912 he was convicted under the Incitement to Mutiny Act 1797 of publishing an article in The Syndicalist, as an 'Open Letter to British Soldiers', urging them to refuse to shoot at strikers (later reprinted as a leaflet, Don't Shoot); his prison sentence was quashed after public pressure.

Tom Quelch

His 1912 appeal for soldiers to refuse to act as strikebreakers caused a Conservative MP, Oliver Locker-Lampson, to complain about him in the House of Commons.

Vishakha and others v State of Rajasthan

Often, the police refuse to lodge FIRs for sexual harassment cases, especially where the harassment occurred some time ago.

Visions of Order

Visions of Order (1964) is a posthumously-published work by conservative scholar Richard M. Weaver which argues that Western culture is in decline because many of its intellectuals refuse to believe in an underlying order of things—in the way things are, irrespective of beliefs about them.

Yuriy Kalitvintsev

After being transferred to the fading club of Nizhniy Novgorod soon he was offered opportunity from the Ukrainian football giant, Dynamo, which he did not refuse playing alongside such players as Andriy Shevchenko, Serhiy Rebrov, Vitaliy Kosovskyi, and others.


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