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They responded that such previous action by them had not been reciprocated, and they reminded me that Hamas had previously insisted on a ceasefire throughout Palestine including both Gaza and the West Bank, which Israel had refused.
So far, China has refused to enter into a water-sharing treaty with a single country.
These sums will be added to Palestinian tax receipts that Israel collected but refused to hand to over to a government that included Hamas;Israel is now releasing about half of the approximately $700 million.
In Libya in 2011, Germany refused to offer even rudimentary material support to the military intervention staged by its British and French allies.
So far, RBI Governor Urjit Patel has refused to give in to the government’s demands.
The EU then refused to mention China explicitly in a resolution on the conflict in the South China Sea.
That changed in 2011, when the popular protests and political chaos stemming from the Arab Spring led to widespread institutional paralysis, allowing the Houthis to march past a military that largely refused to fight it.
In 2003, having seen that its tax cuts for the rich had failed to stimulate the economy as promised, the administration refused to revise its strategies, but instead just prescribed more of the same medicine.
Knowing since 1974 of India’s nuclear ambitions, I and other American presidents imposed a consistent policy: no sales of nuclear technology or uncontrolled fuel to India or any other country that refused to sign the NPT.
John F. Kennedy refused to tolerate the Soviet military presence in Cuba.
In his famous book, The Concept of the Political, Schmitt argued that Germany's Weimar Republic rotted away because its leaders refused to confront their self-declared enemies.
But, just as former US Vice-President Al Gore recently refused to share a dais with Uribe in Miami, many members of Congress refuse to approve a trade agreement or an aid package that may link them to a government tainted by egregious human rights abuses, complicity with drug lords, or both.
Atypical of China, however, the true story refused to die.
Some websites deleted the information, others refused.
Since the April 2001 US-China spy-plane crisis, when China demanded an apology and US President Bush refused to give one, the Bush administration has been alienating the Chinese.
Having already been condemned by a kangaroo court to death by musketry, my father refused to hoist a white flag.
He refused to settle privately, because he believed that if he let corrupt government officials off the hook, "they'll keep scamming the public."
India, Pakistan, and Israel refused to join the treaty and, over time, constructed their own atomic bombs.
Without identity documents, people are barred from schools, denied health care, prevented from marrying, and refused official documents like birth certificates and driver’s licenses.
Germany refused.
It is of course also highly regrettable that after the initial Recovery Act, Congress refused to support a variety of Obama’s proposals for infrastructure and targeted tax credits.
To wonder, as many have, why the Chinese regime refused to negotiate with the students in 1989 – or to find some accommodation with its critics today – is to misunderstand the nature of religious politics.
Meanwhile, Nasralla, continuing to insist that he won, has refused to concede.
The Yingluck government had refused to accept the Constitutional Court’s ruling against a bill to change the senate from a half-appointed to a fully elected chamber.
Bank loans have started to increase, but small borrowers, new borrowers, and start-up companies are regularly refused.
Such an operation would make America appear to be doing Israel’s bidding – even George W. Bush refused when former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert asked the US to attack a Syrian nuclear reactor – and destroy Obama’s strategy of reconciliation with the Muslim world.
Each time, the US refused to engage militarily with a state possessing the largest number of nuclear weapons on earth.
When some of these parties refused, the government backed down and financed AIG’s payment of all of its derivative obligations in full.
It looks as if the German electorate had refused to make up their mind and had instead tossed up a coin.
Therefore, it's a pity that the German voters refused to endow the new Berlin government with a clear mandate to start fighting against the army of domestic veto powers.
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