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While they claim to be redeemers of the poor and trumpet their readiness to fight for their “selfless” Bolivarian cause, they refuse international assistance, forcing Venezuelans either to emigrate or suffer (and, in many cases, die) from severe shortages of food, medicines, and medical supplies.
Member states that refuse to accept refugees can make an appropriate contribution in many other ways, but the refugee crisis is a European problem, so it needs a European solution, not 28 separate solutions.
If an agreement is reached, existing sanctions can be reduced; if Iran’s leaders refuse to budge, new sanctions could be introduced.
At the same time, governments could impose financial penalties on those who refuse to contribute – particularly those who do not even remotely qualify as “elderly.”
Recent history is replete with alarming examples of dictators and would be dictators who refuse to recognize when their time has run out.
But for the past twenty years their blatant political chicanery has been met with a potent new force: the massed voices of ordinary people who refuse to be cowed.
Greece’s voters were right to demand a change in course, and their government is right to refuse to sign on to a deeply flawed program.
Not only do companies refuse to disclose to their shareholders how much they spend on political campaigns; they also are lobbying hard to prevent any rule that would require them to do so.
They are imprisoned for their Stalinist allegiance; when they are finally allowed to return to Italy, their old comrades refuse to accept them.
But, when facing a disease that kills up to 70% of those who are infected, and no accepted treatment yet exists, patients could reasonably refuse consent to a trial in which they might receive a placebo, rather than an experimental treatment that offers some hope of recovery.
Some countries, such as the US, refuse to go further and regulate speech because of its content.
If, instead, the US faces a fiscal slope, then people who refuse to consider raising taxes – namely, Republicans in the US Congress’s House of Representatives – have a very weak hand indeed.
It has become clear that the House Republicans will steadfastly refuse to vote for any increases in tax rates during the current lame-duck congressional session.
In just a few 140-character messages, Swaraj denounced the company and threatened to cancel its employees’ visas and refuse visas to its executives in the future.
Political prisoners, hungry children, the homeless Chernobyl refugees, or the irradiated workers in need of a lifetime of medical help – to dismiss their plight, to refuse to offer some spark of hope, is to exile them to a netherworld of helplessness.
If one believes that market instability is rare, then it is reasonable to refuse to act unless there is a compelling case to do so.
Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and possibly Argentina will refuse.
Perhaps weirdest of all, there are imprisoned guerrillas who refuse to be set free, and a government that insists on liberating them, even against their will.
But, just as former US Vice-President Al Gore recently refused to share a dais with Uribe in Miami, many members of Congress refuse to approve a trade agreement or an aid package that may link them to a government tainted by egregious human rights abuses, complicity with drug lords, or both.
It was a choice they could not really refuse.
Short-term creditors cash out or refuse to roll over their loans, denying credit to financially weakened firms.
But what happens if we refuse to accept Germany’s position?
The "Representative of the Three Represents" refuse to say.
If such a link between trade and currency policy were forced into the TPP, the Asian participants would refuse to join.
But the supposed realists refuse to accept reality.
Finally, in July, the Bundestag enacted a controversial law that threatens to reduce welfare benefits for asylum-seekers who refuse to attend “integration courses.”
We in the West hate to acknowledge – and most refuse to believe – that our leaders have been flagrantly wasteful of Muslim lives for a century now, in countless wars and military encounters instigated by overwhelming Western power.
Because of past exploitation, some African-American women refuse to allow amniotic tissue to be collected for prenatal diagnosis as they fear the uses that could be made of this tissue.
In the same spirit, Europeans resolutely refuse to accept that the US might legitimately have different geopolitical interests – so that when US policies diverge from their own, Europeans assume that the Americans simply got it wrong, and that they clearly need Europe’s wise advice to set them straight.
We refuse to play the part of hapless victim in future history textbooks.
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