Refusing
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Refusing
to prioritize is unjust, wastes resources, and costs lives.
Now, more than ever, we must believe this, for Russian troops wearing Ukrainian uniforms have entered our country, because Ukrainian soldiers are
refusing
to carry out orders to crush those who are demonstrating to defend our democracy.
But the response by others in the field was that what their colleagues described as “unemployment” did not truly exist; it was voluntary, the result of stubborn workers
refusing
to accept the going wage.
When the North Koreans failed to take such steps, primarily in the form of
refusing
to agree to a verification regime, its interlocutors stopped providing fuel oil.
Poland does not use the euro, and it is currently violating the rule of law and other EU norms, while
refusing
to participate in the EU’s refugee response.
Griesa idiosyncratically reinterpreted the pari passu, or equal treatment, clause in the debt contracts to mean that “vulture” funds
refusing
to participate in the earlier debt exchange should receive not 30 but 100 cents on the dollar.
Fifteen years later, however, large sections of the French left are
refusing
to back Emmanuel Macron against Marine Le Pen, Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughter.
Refusing
shareholders entry to shareholders meetings, or striking their names off share registers – two popular gimmicks of a few years ago – are rarer nowadays.
Central banks’ attempt to pump in liquidity to stimulate activity is subverted by commercial banks’ ability to pump liquidity out by augmenting reserves and
refusing
to lend.
Its officials had no compunction about meddling in a member state’s internal affairs – say, to demand the removal of elected politicians for
refusing
to implement cuts in the pensions of their poorest citizens or to sell off public assets at ridiculous prices (something I have personally experienced).
He was notorious for
refusing
to build strong institutions.
The politicized nature of the appointment process has resulted in civic apathy: excellent candidates are
refusing
nomination.
The high price for
refusing
such a proposal has to be made absolutely clear to the Iranian leadership: should no agreement be reached, the West will do everything within its power to isolate Iran economically, financially, technologically, and diplomatically, with the full support of the international community.
Thus, social scientists made the everyday lives of ordinary people respectable, while
refusing
to privilege certain animals over certain - typically disabled or unwanted - humans.
With firmness and clarity, Merkel has condemned all forms of xenophobia and criticized her European counterparts for
refusing
to accept refugees.
The Obama administration’s contradictory rhetoric – affirming that the US-Japan security treaty covers the Senkakus, while
refusing
to take a position on the islands’ sovereignty – has not helped.
But Iran wants more: at a minimum, formal recognition of its “inalienable right to enrich” uranium, no shutdown of any existing facility, and the removal, in significant part, of the many sanctions that have been imposed upon it (for
refusing
to comply with Security Council resolutions requiring it to suspend all enrichment activity).
The US wants to resolve the global crisis by providing substantially more financial help, which Europe is
refusing
to commit, preferring to focus on financial regulatory reform.
He added that this is not a reason for
refusing
a dignified death for those who request it and meet the law’s stringent requirements.
But she knew that
refusing
to do so was precisely what had enabled her to survive.
Indeed, he defeated an incumbent who really wanted to keep his job, and who might reasonably have been tempted to follow the lead of other African leaders defeated in a popular vote by simply
refusing
to accept the result.
With Israel
refusing
to accept a nuclear-armed Iran, and its patience wearing thin, the drums of actual war will beat harder.
Instead, Chen balked at further integration into the global economy,
refusing
to open all of Taiwan’s economic sectors to foreign participation, which would have strengthened Taiwan’s competitiveness and efficiency.
But that didn’t stop Trump from
refusing
in October to “recertify” the JCPOA.
Yet China remains the stumbling block,
refusing
to enter into a water-sharing treaty with any neighbor – much less support a regional regulatory framework – because it wants to maintain its strategic grip on trans-boundary river flows.
At the ASEAN summit in 2011, Yang rebuked his Vietnamese hosts and other ASEAN members for
refusing
to accept China’s sovereignty claims in the South China Sea, saying, “China is a big country and other countries are small countries, and that’s just a fact.”
If Russia does veto the Ahtisaari plan, the EU’s united facade will likely fracture, with many European countries
refusing
either to join the US in recognizing an independent Kosovo without the UN’s blessing or to send a supervisory mission there.
California can also be a leader of progressive resistance or “uncooperative federalism,” by
refusing
to carry out federal policies that it opposes.
Those decisions demonstrated his resolve to uphold Egypt’s role as a force for regional stability, which implied
refusing
to allow his ideology to drive him toward a radical foreign policy.
Beyond
refusing
to adjust its economy, Germany has pushed the costs of the crisis onto others.
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