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Moreover, it is likely to discriminate against people who are either unaware of the donor-card system or tend to refuse to sign the card for reasons associated with religious beliefs or low trust in the medical authorities.
In both cases, the world cannot escape the inevitable question: what is to be done about countries that refuse to do their part in preserving our planet?
Yet many refuse to give up screening.
I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities and horrors of Ukraine’s history.
I refuse to accept the view that Ukraine is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of communism’s legacy that we can never see the bright daybreak of peace and true European unity.
Or they might fear the consequences of not taking the advice (an offer one cannot refuse, so to speak).
What if Americans, tired of the budget cuts in their neighborhoods, refuse to support funds even for “the long war”?
If they refuse, they have no influence at all.
But, with an undervalued exchange rate and strong expectations for the RMB to appreciate in the future, foreign importers of Chinese products refuse to use the RMB to settle transactions, while foreign exporters are happy to accept RMB.
China’s Weaponization of TradeNEW DELHI – China denies mixing business with politics, yet it has long used trade to punish countries that refuse to toe its line.
If France and China were prevented from completing their series, they would either refuse to sign a test-ban treaty altogether or insist on such major exceptions that the treaty would be devalued, to the delight of the test lobby in the United States and elsewhere and the frustrations of all those who want to stop the bomb from spreading.
Having compromised, the IMF should now stick to its guns and refuse to make its arrangement for Greece operational until it is satisfied on both debt relief and technical assumptions.
Frightened lenders may then not only refuse to extend new loans, but also demand repayment of old ones.
For example, as consumers of media, we have power: the next time you are peddled a sex scandal, refuse to buy it.
Supporters of such legislation – including advocates in the United States of a recently proposed Arizona law that would have permitted business owners to refuse service to gays on religious grounds – argue that it reflects an organic popular backlash against a threat to “traditional” values.
If institutional investors refuse to hold stocks for more than a few months, the thinking goes, CEOs’ time horizons for corporate planning must shrink to roughly the same timeframe.
More generally, for reasons of pride and history, many Russians refuse to believe that US policymakers have become more concerned about Iran’s minimal strategic potential than they are about Russia’s robust nuclear forces.
Indeed, China has blithely entered into business with African countries that Europe and America refuse to engage with, owing to sanctions.
It would also be ineffective, because developing countries will – legitimately – refuse to assume by themselves the burden of protecting the world’s biodiversity to the detriment of their economic growth.
As with unfair or illegal labor practices, businesses must refuse to sponsor, supply, or work with organizations that fail to protect their workers from sexual abuse.
And the European Central Bank would have fewer excuses to refuse Greek bonds as collateral.
Renewing the NewsNEW YORK – Last week, rumors from the world of print media were rife: a hundred reporters from The New York Times news desk to be bought out – or to lose their jobs if they refuse; steep cutbacks at British newspapers; staffs slashed at Condé Nast – eight respected editors axed at Glamour magazine.
When one partner (the US) offers to eliminate its tariff in exchange for export restraint, the game is over: this is an offer that is too good to refuse.
Others, wistfully recalling a nation-state that never really existed, cling to national sovereignty as a reason to refuse further European integration.
His efforts to thwart Ukraine’s European future will continue, as will his efforts to hollow out our democracy and replace it with a Kremlin echo chamber, unless the world imposes such a high price for his imperial ambitions that the Russian people refuse to bear it.
Hence, a new law grants refugees just one year to reclaim their property before the government seizes it; and other bureaucratic requirements seem designed to allow Syrian authorities to refuse reentry to anyone they don’t like.
Those of us who see the potential for far more harm than good in the WikiLeaks disclosures, and refuse to join in the cheers for Assange and his colleagues, are probably trying to resist an inexorable tide.
He deems the proponents of civil society “elitists” who refuse to be tested at the ballot box and who try to influence politics through informal mechanisms.
Mitt Romney Rejects His Natural VotersCAMBRIDGE – The political fallout from Mitt Romney’s characterization of 47% of the American electorate as “victims” who are “dependent on government” and refuse to take “personal responsibility” for their lives demonstrates anew that cultural generalizations, particularly in politics, are usually dangerous.
Though such taxes are spectacularly unpopular – perhaps because individuals refuse to admit that the externalities they themselves create are significant – I regard them as an important direction for future policy (and I intend to suggest other ideas along these lines in future columns).
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