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  • noun Plural form of refusnik.

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Examples

  • Yiddish has also opened many doors all over the world for Ruth and her husband, Dr. Samuel Peizer, from her sponsorship of Russian refusniks seeking asylum in Seattle to her sending humanitarian aid to the Baltics since 1992.

    Ruth Emmerman Peizer: Weaving Women's Words: Seattle Stories 2010

  • The refusniks are red states hostile to health care reform.

    The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: FACE the Facts 2010

  • If they are to get to the truth, I recommend that the standards and privileges committee interview the [culture committee] refusniks, the people associated iwith News International who flatly rejected our invitations to give evidence to our own inquiry.

    Politics blog live - Thursday 9 September 2010

  • Fashion Statement likes to imagine it will be a benign dictatorship, though we do worry for the safety of harem trouser refusniks.

    How Asos took over the world 2010

  • Bin Baz decreed that connecting refusniks derogatory term for Shiis and Sunnis is unacceptable because the theology is different.

    Tuesday, January 27, 2009 As'ad 2009

  • But if he believes that the current testing hysteria and canned learning epidemic, our current schooling phenomenon that threatens to undermine the capacity of young people to discern the truth and to think, is going to be overturned by a few testing refusniks who are willing to give up their teaching jobs, then get the hell out of my face, mister.

    Bill Ayers on Arne Duncan: "the smart choice, the unity choice" Jim Horn 2009

  • But if he believes that the current testing hysteria and canned learning epidemic, our current schooling phenomenon that threatens to undermine the capacity of young people to discern the truth and to think, is going to be overturned by a few testing refusniks who are willing to give up their teaching jobs, then get the hell out of my face, mister.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Jim Horn 2009

  • As it is unacceptable to bring Jews, Christians and idolaters together with Sunnis, it is similarly disallowed to bring the refusniks and Sunnis due to the theology differences we mentioned.

    Tuesday, January 27, 2009 As'ad 2009

  • Allowing 1% refusniks, that means it will be more than 10 years to load the trial areas so that it is possible to see if the system works at all.

    NHS Spine - delivery in 2507? 2008

  • I respect the decision by the 6 Plaid refusniks - as long as they mean it and its not just for one year, with the increases being accepted when no-one is looking later on.

    So its an 8.3% increase. Glyn Davies 2008

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