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Against this background, it seems inconceivable that the EU should refuse to support an EMU member in a situation similar to that of Hungary and Latvia, especially as all the countries that are currently on market watch lists are long-time EU members.
This means that they realize that the burden is too high and that if the workers know what they are really paying they might refuse to continue.
If Californians refuse, Obama could face a widening revolt – against the idea of expanded government as the chief response to what ails America at home.
Current legislation is vague enough to allow government agencies to refuse freedom-of-information requests on the basis of claims of commercial confidentiality or privacy concerns.
The politicians and governments that plan for the long term will defeat those that fail – or simply refuse – to look beyond the current election cycle.
But the reality is that, if two sides willingly trade, it can be assumed that both are better off; otherwise, one of them would refuse to trade.
Now, they refuse to fulfill their promises of global cooperation.
Similarly, European citizens should have demanded that their governments refuse even to consider transferring private losses to them.
They refuse to be misled, as they were during the Vietnam War, when the Vietcong were portrayed as bloodthirsty commies.
As long as Western politicians continue to refuse to accept responsibility for creating the current quagmire – not to mention new ones, such as Libya – their armies will not inspire faith in Asia.
Under heavy pressure from America, China's leaders have agreed in principle to float the renminbi, but refuse to say when.
People – say, those wealthy Asian businesspeople, or their Western partners – must not only refuse to purchase products derived from poaching; they must also reject them when they are offered.
To that end, they should all agree to start labeling their meat and fish products with color codes denoting the amount of antibiotics that went into their production; and they should refuse to buy or sell any products that have used colistin.
Yet all refuse to accept that the rationale for a domestic rule of law – including provisions to protect weak borrowers from powerful and abusive creditors – applies at the international level as well.
The country’s major cable and satellite companies refuse to carry it – leaving it with US viewers only in Washington, DC and parts of Ohio and Vermont – despite huge public demand.
As a result, if Argentina chooses to pay exchange bondholders as usual, BNY Mellon may refuse to transfer the funds, triggering a technical default.
To be sure, the bondholders might refuse, given that, if they individually declared the exchange bonds to be in default, they could demand in court immediate payment in full of the remaining debt.
In 1966 the secret police made me an offer they thought I couldn't refuse: if I collaborated, they would drop me by parachute over England and arrange for me to study at Oxford.
Few governments refuse to pay at all in any form.
Spaniards are offended when they are compared to Greeks, Poles are shocked when they are compared with Spaniards, the French refuse to be compared to Italians, and so on, in an infernal spiral.
Women have already been denied access to a diagnostic test, because insurers refuse to pay the company’s high prices.
They will warn that other EU countries like Portugal will refuse to undertake more reform, retrenchment, and repayment unless they receive similar largesse.
Like drug addicts or the mentally ill who refuse treatment, we need our friends to intervene.
They know that elected politicians are prone to graft, but now refuse blatant disenfranchisement and the formation of governments like Abhisit’s, which was brokered in an army barracks.
Aristide's foes merely had to refuse to bargain in order to plunge Haiti into chaos.
More generally, some development experts have raised concerns about whether the AIIB can operate according to international standards of governance and transparency, enforce safeguards, refuse to work with incompetent or corrupt governments, and follow effective procedures.
But, even as the ongoing violence makes such an investigation all the more urgent, Ukraine’s prosecutor and courts refuse to act.
Indeed, while I refuse to believe that Ukraine’s march to civil war is unstoppable, I also know that our citizens will never be silenced again.
But what most Western commentators refuse to acknowledge is that the champion of competition nowadays is Saudi Arabia, while the freedom-loving oilmen of Texas are praying for OPEC to reassert its monopoly power.
A "revolt of the middle classes" that increasingly refuse to pay for society's "underdogs" is accompanied by budgetary constraints that can also make solidarity seem a luxury.
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