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Israel rebuffed US President Barack Obama’s peace initiatives, and even refused to extend a freeze on settlement construction for a mere three months, despite a lavish offer of strategic compensation.
The question of whether Trump’s tax policies would benefit him directly remains unanswered, because, unlike all other presidential candidates since Richard Nixon, he has refused to release his income-tax records.
Such infantile ploys have become all too characteristic of the PiS government, which has also refused to publish Polish Constitutional Tribunal decisions, as if this makes them legally non-binding.
In 2008, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe refused to accept his loss in a first-round presidential ballot and forced his opponent to drop out for the second.
Gbagbo, too, refused to step down.
He refused to underwrite an expansionist blank check and he was not punished by the electorate for any lack of patriotic ardor.
I tried to persuade my mother to permit my circumcision, but she refused.
But, partly owing to a Supreme Court decision and the obduracy of Republican governors and legislators, who in two dozen US states have refused to expand Medicaid (insurance for the poor) – even though the federal government pays almost the entire tab – 41 million Americans remain uninsured.
Reportedly, in the run-up to the rocket launch, the North Koreans refused to respond to China’s pleas that they stand down.
The government refused to act.
Even under pressure from the international community and, most powerfully, from the US, Israel has consistently refused to slow expansion of its settlements in the West Bank.
They have strengthened Hamas, a hostile opponent of peace, pushed the US to vote against the Palestinian state whose birth it defends, and refused outright to accept any conditions that might resolve the conflict.
But any genuinely diverse discussion would include not only the 21 state-approved writers on the list, but other officially recognized writers on the more critical end of the spectrum, such as Yan Lianke, who was refused permission to attend this year’s London Book Fair three times.
Bakr, for her part, refused the order, and staged a sit-in at the parliament building.
Indeed, although US leaders technically agreed to IMF voting reforms, the US Congress has so far refused to ratify them.
The situation escalated sharply earlier this month, when Yameen refused to comply with the Supreme Court’s unanimous order quashing the convictions, which he had engineered, of nine opposition figures – including the exiled former president, Mohamed Nasheed – on terrorism charges.
In assigning blame for this dismal track record, Democrats point to the fact that Republicans turned off the spigot of fiscal stimulus in 2010, and then refused to turn it back on.
Mikoyan, as one joke had it, left the Kremlin one day in heavy rain and refused to share a colleague’s umbrella.
Israel’s Ukraine DilemmaTEL AVIV – As if relations between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government and US President Barack Obama’s administration were not strained enough, Israel has refused to join the United States and its other allies in condemning Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
Yet at Cancun, Mexico earlier this summer, it refused to open its markets even to exports from struggling African economies.
But Sessions, the first Republican senator to endorse Trump, was enjoying rolling back numerous Obama-era protections in areas like civil rights, and refused to resign.
Since India gained its independence, the government has systematically refused to collect sufficient data on the socioeconomic aspects of caste.
Employees learned in the experiments that employers largely could be trusted to give such bonuses as a reward for hard work, even though no one could hold them formally accountable if they selfishly refused.
Immigrants who cover their faces have been refused French citizenship for that reason.
In fact, only the Socialists refused to vote for the parliamentary resolution.
Poland is experiencing a constitutional crisis that began when PiS-backed Polish President Andrzej Duda refused to swear in three Constitutional Tribunal judges chosen by the previous parliament.
The court declared the PiS’s judicial rule changes unconstitutional, but the PiS-led government refused to publish the court’s decision, thereby blocking it from taking effect.
Kenya and Ethiopia refused, resulting in a number of regional wars over the Somali national question.
EEA membership would not amount to British “cherry picking” of EU benefits, which other countries have understandably refused to accept.
On a visit to the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong famously refused to use the flush toilet adjoining his room, and instead used a chamber pot he had brought from China.
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