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The European Union, after years of refusal, finally agreed in November to support a treaty; it should now press for clear, implementable language that will allow organizations to share braille, large-print, and audio books with each other and with people whose disabilities make them unable to read.
The PiS’s wholesale refusal to admit any guilt or own up to mistakes speaks to a deep-seated immaturity.
The PiS is infantilizing Poland through its infatuation with authority, rejection of cooperation, denial of guilt, and refusal to countenance heterodox ideas and those who think them.
The obstacles hindering its success included Russia’s inability or refusal to transform itself in line with the European model, as well as Europe’s lack of the ambition and imagination needed to launch a new project for the genuine unification of the whole of Europe.
That is why Germany’s refusal to help find a way to finance the proposed European investment agenda – which, for a limited time, would fund productive private investment – is a mistake.
To be sure, Evans is right that the Howard government’s refusal to allow into Australian waters the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa, carrying 438 rescued Afghans, was a source of national shame.
Pressure was already growing to introduce trade sanctions in response to China’s refusal to allow its currency to rise to a natural level against the dollar.
Barghouti’s popularity also stems from his refusal from the beginning to take any office in Arafat’s corrupt PA and its institutions.
Although Japan did receive some appreciation for its dispatch of naval squadrons to the Mediterranean, it endured wide criticism for its refusal to send ground troops.
Indeed, refusal to support Georgia’s struggling democracy would most likely postpone democratic progress in Ukraine, Belarus, even in Russia itself.
When economic historians examine the Great Recession, their overwhelming consensus is likely to be that its depth and duration reflected governments’ refusal to try to do more, not that they tried to do too much.
The issue is complicated further by Turkey’s refusal to negotiate directly with the Kurdish Regional Government in northern Iraq.
Her refusal to strike out on her own is probably the main reason why she continues to lead various opinion polls.
Russia’s withdrawal from the Treaty of Conventional Forces, its deliberate efforts to block the election monitoring of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and the Kremlin’s refusal to ratify the reform of the European Court on Human Rights (Protocol No 14 to the European Convention on Human Rights), all marked its passing.
An eventual agreement, reached in the fifth round of the six-party talks in February 2007, could not be implemented because of North Korea’s refusal to agree on a verification protocol.
Coming close on the heels of the Annapolis conference, which brought together representatives from all Arab states – including Syria – and Israel, many observers regarded our meeting as a signal of the Bush administration’s refusal to normalize bilateral relations with Syria or strike any deals or bargains with its regime.
It is also the logic behind member states’ refusal to engage in pre-negotiations or to accept a transitional arrangement.
But in his refusal to give in to panic and act rashly, he has been far braver than all the big talkers who accuse him of being a wimp.
The latest controversy emerged when a senior US official complained to the influential Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz about Israel’s refusal to condemn Russia’s actions in Ukraine or to support Ukraine’s territorial integrity in the United Nations General Assembly.
This system, which allows organs to be harvested also from refusers who have failed to express their refusal, has not increased trust in medicine, either.
It is also easy to envision a large-scale public backlash against the major technology companies, particularly if poor self-policing or a refusal to cooperate with law enforcement leads to some horrible event.
The crisis in the eurozone and the refusal to attempt any real European approach to reviving growth has contributed – not exclusively, but significantly – to the rebirth of nationalism within the EU.
The administration’s refusal to apologize to Jaber, or even to explain what went wrong, indicates that this promise has yet to be fulfilled.
The EU should make it clear to Hamas that the Union is not going to finance terror and is not going to finance a refusal to make peace.
Their boom-and-bust character reflected nothing more than the relevant regulators’ failure – or refusal – to understand the risks involved.
For starters, there is America’s refusal (thus far) to intervene militarily in Syria.
Particularly egregious from the point of view of “Davos” was the recent refusal by Congress to approve the reform and refunding of the International Monetary Fund, even though a plan that added no significant burden to the American taxpayer had been agreed years earlier by the G-20 under Obama’s leadership.
But now, facing China’s rise, India’s dynamism, Africa’s soaring populations and economic stirrings, Russia’s refusal to bend to its will, its own inability to control events in the Middle East, and Latin America’s determination to be free of its de facto hegemony, US power has reached its limits.
Yet, in some cases, there comes a time when refusal to forgive debt is more damaging.
Much of the answer can be traced to President Barack Obama’s refusal to deploy combat troops against ISIS, in favor of a light footprint using local forces aided by US airstrikes and training.
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