refuse admittance
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The great bulk of the visitors have been curious correspondents and press agents, to whom Carter reserved the right to refuse admittance.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Calvert's case, the court held that a suspect's absence may be simply another attempt to refuse admittance, and thus permits police to break in without service.
From Time Magazine Archive
"But, most assuredly, I do intend to refuse admittance to any body of military whatsoever, great or small, while I retain the post with which his Majesty has entrusted me of governor to this place."
From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
If the hole which he makes will permit the former to enter, but will refuse admittance to the latter, then he knows that that hole is sufficiently near its reputed size to answer its purpose.
It may seem very ill-natured sometimes to refuse admittance on easy terms to such places, and to act apparently in a sort of dog-in-the-manger spirit.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various
