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But we must refuse to bow before the altar of tolerance when it comes to what is truly unacceptable, wherever it occurs, and this is what the world is witnessing passively in Afghanistan.
Let us support a fair-trade economy, and refuse to shop at outlets targeted by activists for unfair employment practices (for more information, go to http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1485).
Under these circumstances, it seems likely that Saudi Arabia will continue to refuse to cut oil production, leaving prices low until market forces trigger a rebound.
They are wary of rocking the financial boat, so they go easy on financial reform and refuse to insist on more equity capital for banks.
They operate in countries that typically refuse to recognize the agency of women beyond the role of mothers, wives, and daughters.
These mothers refuse to allow their children to be forgotten.
It can be difficult for ordinary citizens to feel hopeful when governments and international institutions have been unable to stop the war and refuse to protect refugees.
Clearly, North Koreans who refuse to show deep sadness on occasions of public mourning risk serious trouble – children expelled from school, careers blocked, perhaps even time in a slave-labor camp.
Whatever the reasons for the decline, if the public becomes unwilling to provide such crucial resources as tax dollars, or to comply voluntarily with laws, or if bright young people refuse to go into government service, governmental capacity will be impaired and people will become more dissatisfied with it.
Even if they refuse to be drawn in, they face an influx of refugees and other forms of contagion.
Subsequent Russian leaders refuse to be duped again.
Participation in a common financial market should not be allowed for free riders who refuse to share information.
But writers like Rivero and his fellow political prisoners, as well as those dissidents who are not in jail, refuse to let Castro off so easily.
But one such alternative, geoengineering, is a solution that many people refuse to entertain.
From an American perspective, flexible ad hoc coalitions of the willing have turned out to be more useful than the established NATO alliance, where Germany led the fight to refuse Turkey's request for support.
Hundreds of thousands of other girls in northern Nigeria are now too afraid to go to school, but these girls refuse to be cowed.
Someone who feels that he or she has been treated unfairly by an algorithm’s decision often has no way to appeal it, either because specific results cannot be interpreted, or because the people who have written the algorithm refuse to provide details about how it works.
Poland's bishops refuse to embrace democracy for different reasons.
In the United States, some of the fiercest defenders of hardline Zionism are evangelical Christians who firmly believe that Jews who refuse to convert to Christianity will one day face terrible retribution.
There is a considerable gap between offers of advice one cannot refuse and the responsibility to deal with the consequences when that advice proves wrong or extremely difficult to implement.
I believe that few wealthy people would refuse to contribute a small portion of their huge wealth for the chance to save the lives of millions of people each year and help the poorest countries get the first foot on the ladder of economic development.
Faced with that risk, creditors demand higher interest rates from the outset or refuse to grant additional credit, thereby imposing a measure of discipline on debtors.
Many US conservatives see Lula as a hardcore socialist unable to compromise, and refuse to recognize that he has changed significantly.
There should be no doubt as to the answer to this question, except in the minds of politicians who fail to raise it because they refuse to think beyond the coming presidential election.
Europe’s politicians simply refuse to take the lead on this all-important issue.
One is whether a person has a right to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment.
That document states that to refuse a burdensome medical treatment “is not the equivalent of suicide.”
If an incurably ill patient can refuse burdensome treatment, knowing that this refusal will mean his or her death, why should an incurably ill patient who is not being kept alive by any medical treatment, but finds that the illness itself makes life burdensome, be unable to seek assistance in escaping that burden?
By focusing on the narrower intention to refuse burdensome treatment, rather than the broader implications of the choice, the Roman Catholic Church is able to avoid the inhumane implication that patients must always accept life-prolonging treatment, no matter how painful or costly such treatment may be.
Many countries recognize a legal right to refuse medical treatment.
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