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But, as a matter of national pride, the Chinese refuse to articulate an international commitment under duress, and Obama doesn’t have much standing in pressing China to compromise, since the US Congress hasn’t yet acted on cap-and-trade legislation.
But they refuse to accept that this was the root cause of the crisis.
As consumers, we have the power – and the moral obligation – to refuse to support farming methods that are cruel to animals and bad for us.
These voters will oppose the fiscal and monetary integration required to stabilize the eurozone if they think their money will be spent on subsidizing poor countries on Europe’s periphery that refuse to cooperate on refugees and fail to abide by EU laws.
Centralization of the public finances of member states, though a radical step, may be the only answer to the problem of recalcitrant countries like France that refuse to play by the budget rules.
As a matter of principle, the hawks refuse to consider the political costs of their actions.
Owing to the tsunami, some of the refuse will ride the waves of the Pacific, reaching Hawaii and the West coast of the United States in a year or so.
On orders from Serbia’s government, Kosovo Serbs, who represent some 5% of the population, refuse to cooperate with Kosovo’s government and the EU mission.
Indeed, it is rather likely that the Palestinians, who stubbornly refuse to negotiate with their Israeli counterparts, intend to drag Israel into the trap of a binational state extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, hoping that it will one day all become Palestine.
With the murder of peaceful protesters, the shelling of residential quarters, the execution of soldiers who refuse to fire on their countrymen, and the use of chemical weapons, a picture has emerged of a regime that is systematically defying the most basic international moral and legal standards.
Supporters of this view argue that General Stanculescu, unlike President Pinochet, was carrying out orders he could not refuse.
But if the advanced industrial countries that control the Bank refuse to stand by their principles, at least they should give a nod to greater transparency.
Because commercial banks are an essential source of funding for member governments, the ECB is forced to refuse liquidity to banks domiciled in insolvent members.
Equally aggressive was its decision to curtail Greek banks’ spending on government treasuries, by instructing them to refuse debt rollovers.
Yet, for some reason, Greece's creditors refuse to negotiate with the new government (which enjoys strong domestic support) to develop a new program that incorporates debt relief, a lower fiscal surplus, and structural reforms that support growth and promote social cohesion.
We now have it from the US government lawyers’ own mouths: this law may put journalists at risk, or at least the lawyers explicitly refuse to rule out that option for their client – and, as Forrest put it, they have “one very big client.”Forrest
But they should not refuse to acknowledge that China’s mission to turn a nation of 1.3 billion poor people into a developed country through peace and free trade is one of the great, honorable, and most difficult sagas in human history.
Companies that do not manufacture or sell antibiotics for agricultural purposes, or that refuse to promote the use of antibiotics for diseases that do not require such drugs, would gain points as well.
Once this strategy is understood, there is a simple antidote: Refuse to behave the way your enemies want you to.
They could refuse to renew the waiver of Environmental Protection Agency regulations that allows California to impose its more stringent emissions standards.
If responsible politicians refuse, “some rough beast, its hour come at last” will do it for them.
The United States, Europe, and other Western governments refuse to negotiate with us, even though neighboring Iraq and Turkey have done so willingly.
Why refuse to meet Russia's business elite, while meeting with foreign investment bankers?
Concerned that the Arab rebellions would radicalize their own repressed minorities, they refuse to allow the UN Security Council to be used to promote revolutionary changes in the Arab world.
He predicted that Democrats would repeatedly push him to raise taxes, and he swore that he would forever refuse: “Read my lips: no new taxes.”
This new, decentralized free-market regime currently encompasses only a small part of China's vast territory, and many Chinese officials still refuse to acknowledge its existence.
By contrast, European authorities refuse to test the scenario that the market currently fears most: losses on loans to banks and governments on Europe’s periphery.
Beijing has leveraged this role by employing trade to punish those that refuse to toe its line, including by imposing import bans on specific products, halting strategic exports (such as rare-earth minerals), cutting off tourism from China, and encouraging domestic consumer boycotts or protests against foreign businesses.
The law would permit marital rape, limit women’s movements – say, for work or study – without male permission, and even make it illegal for a woman to refuse to dress as her husband wishes.
But the Israeli government and army refuse, calling Hamas “terrorists” in order to deny them legitimacy, despite previously reaching understandings in southern Lebanon with Hezbollah, which they also consider a “terrorist organization.”
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