Possible Clues:

• Indication of unwillingness (to do something)
• No option
• Denial from fellow American in concrete
• No failures possible if I depart
• Liberal America first to support judge's veto
• Umpire gets regular, heartless rejection
• Row mainly at heart of actual rebuff
• No points will be lost for it
• Is Alf sure not to be acceptable?
• The act of saying no