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The National Transitional Council refuses to make difficult decisions, instead palming them off to a future elected government.
This requires, first and foremost, superseding the cognitive dissonance whereby Israel dreams of engagement with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt but refuses that path with the Brothers’ Gazan offspring, Hamas.
And yet, despite its peaceful and orderly dissolution, the Soviet Union still refuses to die completely.
The elected president wants to act, but the assembly refuses to approve the necessary laws.
But, although banking and finance have taken center stage, the EU’s constitutional problem refuses to go away.
Indeed, with China bent on unification, it refuses even to define relations with Taiwan as "bilateral," while China's growing global influence suggests that Taiwan's diplomatic fortunes are not about to improve.
Whereas the US is willing to spend $147 billion next year in the name of an implausible democracy in Iraq, it refuses to spend any imagination or money to shore up one of the most creative models of peace and democracy in the Islamic world.
Despite its name, which means “Together,” it refuses to enter into any kind of alliance with the mainstream parties, including SLD, even though both parties failed to meet the electoral threshold in the last parliamentary election.
The Mexican political class simply refuses to combat corruption and impunity.
Israel still refuses to accept the new Palestinian national unity government as a negotiating partner because Hamas is part of that government.
The provincial cannot admit his inferiority and refuses to learn from others.
Media manipulation has become the order of the day in Italy, but, unfortunately, the EU, behaving on the premise that it will not interfere in internal matters, refuses to say a word about any of this.
The Left is in the StreetsPARIS – The riots that have rampaged across Greece may have many causes, but one that is rarely mentioned is the fracturing of the Greek left into George Papandreou’s traditional socialist party, PASOK, and an increasingly radicalized faction that refuses all accommodation with either the European Union or modern economics.
He refuses to note the renminbi’s large real appreciation in recent years, or to acknowledge that, while changes in China’s exchange rate may affect the bilateral trade deficit, what matters is America’s multilateral trade deficit.
The police chief refuses, and is so incorruptible that he sleeps beside the drugs to prevent the multi-million-dollar evidence from disappearing.
There are many causes for this, but the most widely recognized reason for why the crisis erupted and why it refuses to die down is this: Asian countries, while opening their economic systems, kept their political structures closed.
The Rapaport Group, an international network of companies providing services to the diamond industry, refuses to list Marange diamonds on its diamond-trading platform, RapNet.
As a psychotherapist specializing in homosexuality, I have been consulted many times by anxious parents terrified that their little boy is gay (at age five!): he likes to play with dolls, enjoys the company of girls, refuses to play soccer.
The US Congress refuses to ratify the agreement reached in 2010 to correct this skewed state of affairs.
It opposes necessary structural reforms in order to defend its clients’ rent-seeking practices; rejects citizen candidacies in favor of unaccountable party elites; recoils from union modernization, owing to the corporatist practices that it implemented; and refuses to dismantle the monopolies that it established.
Honoring all three of those legal obligations simultaneously is impossible if Congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling, but raising the debt ceiling without Congressional approval, though illegal and an impeachable offense, was the least-bad choice.
Nevertheless, the administration refuses to be held back by institutional restraints.
Along with the Netherlands and the Baltic states, Germany blames that crisis on some member states’ budgetary imprudence and insufficient monitoring of private debt, and thus refuses to examine properly the eurozone’s systemic problems.
In other words, the populist decides who the real people are, and whoever refuses to be unified on the populist’s terms is excluded – even if they happen to have a British or a US passport.
Yes, populism is an approach to economic policy that refuses to acknowledge the existence of budget constraints.
The current regime in Syria, in its ruthless quest to remain in power, refuses to acknowledge peaceful protesters' demands for freedom and dignity.
It is scary enough that the US president refuses most of his daily briefings from the professionals at the State Department and in the military and intelligence services.
A government that continues to settle the West Bank and refuses to negotiate with the Palestinians will face erosion of its international legitimacy, boycotts, and sanctions.
Germany refuses even to allow spending on high-priority infrastructure projects to be exempted from the unrealistic deficit targets set by the EU’s new “fiscal compact.”
Today, Turkmenistan refuses to cooperate with Russia.
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