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Absolutely awesome was the battle- the scale of the battle, the destruction, the disaster, the hatred and then the repentance, the scenes say it all absolutely wordlessly (Mark the scene where Asoka offers the dying soldier water, and he refuses to take it from the hated Asoka).
The Evil Queen wants to destroy Snow White because her mirror reminds her that she is the fairest of the fair and the Queen refuses to be upstaged.
Lise refuses to be broken by her Nazi oppressors and, subsequently, becomes the object of the camp commandant's obsession.
When radio singer Lee Bowman refuses to renew his contract, talent scout Jack Carson ventures out to look for a new star.
In the end you find out there is a fish in a lake, the guy says Zah to scare people, the guy refuses to believe she is a witch till the very end (and frankly I still don't think he really believes), and both end up in the clutches of satan.
She has allowed herself to be used by a man, not unlike her unfeeling father, and her protrayal makes us sympathize with her, particularly when she finds she's pregnant and the man refuses to help her.
It refuses to ascribe to Iran’s secretive state an ideological rigidity that might not exist.
Any country that refuses to do so will create strain for all – and end up condemning itself to being left behind.
But any “last stand” type of warfare refuses to recognize the possibility of a future war for which it may be a precedent.
Nor can this path lead to a United States of Europe, simply because a large part of Europe refuses to follow it.
If the EU refuses to sustain free trade with the UK, its citizens will suffer as much as the British.
Second, the costs of abandoning diplomacy are so high that continued engagement makes sense even as Iran refuses to budge.
The Bush administration, however, refuses to disclose information which would show the role of corporate interests in setting its energy policy.
And yet Rasheed refuses to be discreet: “Everything I believe, I believe in it,” he says.
If there are just two companies in the sector, the one that refuses to violate minimal labor standards risks losing the entire market to an immoral competitor, which can ultimately sell its shoes more cheaply.
What use is vocal multilateralism, what use are German leaders’ lofty speeches about international law being exercised by the Security Council, if Germany refuses to endorse a resolution for the protection of Libya’s citizens from a brutal regime employing all means at its disposal in its fight for survival?
He quickly proposes, and she accepts, but Elsa refuses to give her blessing.
If, however, the crisis results from a coordination failure among investors – when each investor refuses to roll over the government’s debt for fear that others will do the same, leading to a default – monetary policy can play an important role.
Russia consistently refuses to allow Western companies the same access to Russian facilities that Russian state energy companies already enjoy in Europe and the United States.
And the government refuses even to publish the Court’s decisions in the official law journal, which means that the rulings cannot take effect.
But if Italy defies common rules or refuses to accept the fundamental principles of sound budgeting, any reform will be dead on arrival.
Sadly, in spite of a much celebrated peace process, Pakistan refuses visas to Indian peace groups and activists that seek to help in the relief effort.
Iran also occupies three Emirati islands in the Gulf (a policy that it refuses to discuss) and has in effect launched an invasion of Syria.
If Germany refuses to take a more reasoned approach, it risks undermining the ECB’s credibility, thereby reducing the effectiveness of its measures.
The ECB has the same option, but refuses to use it.
Beatrix, like Franz Joseph, refuses to make ethnic or religious distinctions between her subjects.
For example, you want to know whether you can still get the unlimited-data-roaming plan that your friend has, but the company refuses to give you a straight answer.
Germany refuses to accept that its beggar-thy-neighbor economic policies – reflected in its massive current-account surpluses – are both a cause of the eurozone crisis and a major impediment to resolving it.
Although Havel refuses to describe himself in terms of left and right, he is more a communitarian than a classical liberal, and certainly more leftist than rightist.
If the EU refuses to sign an Association Agreement with Ukraine at the upcoming Ukraine-EU summit in Kyiv on December 19 because of Tymoshenko’s imprisonment, the damage to the country will be vast and enduring.
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