Is it when our bodies rebel and refuse to do what we want them to do?
There may still be companies that refuse to do right by their workers by giving them coverage.
That would force us to reduce our support for wounded veterans and their families--something we refuse to do.
Whether or not Mr Suharto has forgotten the details of his former rule, many Indonesians refuse to do so.
And should Jana Winter lose, she will face the choice of disclosing her sources or refuse to do so and go to jail.
The author Franz Kafka famously demanded that his papers be burned after his death, but his friend and literary executor Max Brod refuse to do it.
The sudden and unforeseen collapse of Bear Stearns demonstrates how vulnerable investment banks can be when their customers refuse to do business with them.
It's just hard to score in the luxury market when you refuse to do an eight-cylinder engine, wear undistinguished styling and don't offer a rear-wheel-drive car.
Most refuse to do without, and if you wanted to make it in music, (before music-millionaire contests shoved pre-scheduled winners down your throat) you had to sacrifice for your art.
Any manager who determines in his judgment that achievement of the minority brokerage goals is not consistent with his best execution duty may simply refuse to do business with minority brokers.
Health plans passed the cutbacks along by consolidating into an oligopoly in which each plan had so many members that no provider could afford to refuse to do business on their terms.
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Unless their is a sea change in human consciousness, the number of celebrities willing to fly to Moscow for a few million dollars will continue to exceed those who refuse to do so.
The sudden and unforeseen collapse of Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ) demonstrates how vulnerable investment banks can be when their customers refuse to do business with them.
If the Republicans quit, refuse to do a deal in the face of what looks like the president being so willing to compromise that he is damaging his reputation with his own party, they will look like ideological hotheads.
The point is that Italy's bond yield - the implicit interest rate it pays - is unlikely to fall decisively below the catastrophically unaffordable 7% unless and until the eurozone demonstrates that there is a bailout facility (of some sort) that has sufficient resources to lend to Italy if investors refuse to do so.
But Mrs Hatton said she would stand by her decision to refuse to pay the fine until ordered to do so by a tribunal.
Are we willing to shrug our shoulders and be helpless or do we refuse to put our hard earned investments and savings with such companies that are involved with these acts?
Some of their respondents either say they do not know how they will vote, or they refuse to say what they will do.
Before we do that, we have to think of the other rich man, the one we refuse to acknowledge because if we do, we will see the truth.
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Several states now make it tough to do this, as many refuse to recognize an out-of-state permit.
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One way to exploit that inertia for a better outcome is automatic enrollment, in which employers default all new workers into the retirement plan unless the workers refuse to participate, which they are free to do at any time.
Instead of just continuing to repeat the mantra that we have made an inaccurate interpretation of your severance plan, why do you refuse to go into detail as to why our interpretation is incorrect?
It's one of the enduring mysteries of economics: Why do people refuse to act the way economists predict they should?
Or do they refuse to accept responsibility and risk losing credibility?
The worst thing to do is respond defensively as questions arise and refuse to examine your behavior. (Public pension operating in a political arena frequently tend to develop a hostile attitude toward those raising questions or offering new solutions.) If you seek out new advice, guidance and insights you will be fine.
At the same time the ECB and Germany might refuse to step in, because they do not want countries to evade reform.
If stockmarkets refuse to rise, these politicians will do the next best thing: revise accounting regulations so that sagging share prices need not be reflected in companies' year-end accounts.
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