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.
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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But Mrs Hatton said she would stand by her decision to refuse to pay the fine until ordered to do so by a tribunal.
It's one of the enduring mysteries of economics: Why do people refuse to act the way economists predict they should?
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.
The poll indicates that nearly eight in 10 believe full-body scanners should be used in U.S. airports, while 15 percent said they would refuse to go through one of the machines if asked to do so.
Do the groups who refuse the planning decision have to pay if they lose and if not, why not?
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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But it is wrong for anybody to suggest that the only option for struggling, responsible homeowners is to sit and wait for the housing market to hit bottom. (Applause.) I refuse to accept that, and so do the American people.
Meanwhile, the rules of the government's dispersal scheme have recently been tightened: if asylum seekers refuse to be relocated to a place of the government's choosing (as some do), they now risk losing benefits at once.
Even worse than the plan to do nothing for seven weeks is the fact that finance ministers refuse to even agree on what they have agreed.
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So civil servants have been dusting off their manuals on what to do in case of a hung parliament, and the Lib Dems elaborately refuse to set out the terms on which they would co-operate with either main party in a formal coalition or an informal alliance.
We believe that there is time and space to continue to pursue that approach, even as we refuse and make clear that we do not take any option off the table in our effort to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
Airline employees and flight attendants could do without the cranky travelers who refuse to wait patiently, turn off cell phones or stay in their seats.
Like so many families of Sichuan orphans, they refuse to put them up for adoption but do not have the means to care for them, either.
Terrified victims often refuse to make a complaint to the police, who can do little in any case with descriptions of masked men.
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?
And should Jana Winter lose, she will face the choice of disclosing her sources or refuse to do so and go to jail.
Whether or not Mr Suharto has forgotten the details of his former rule, many Indonesians refuse to do so.
He tells me to do it by the roadside, in front of the refuse, but I ignore him and walk across the road, around the dancing mob, and through a gap between two shops.
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.
However, we do have a responsibility to ensure that the public gets its refuse collected and streets cleaned.
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When retailers limit selection and refuse to sell popular products like Kindle, they send shoppers to the ones who do.
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At the same time the ECB and Germany might refuse to step in, because they do not want countries to evade reform.
Under German law, all men are obliged to serve nine months either in the military, which they can refuse, or do civilian service.
For there is something that journalists can do to slow it down: they can at least refuse to be cowed by the accusation that to be professional is to be elitist.
States are required to establish exchanges, but if they refuse, the federal government will step in and do so for them.
What if Republicans refuse to negotiate a deal on the fiscal cliff because they feel that any tax increase would do more harm than good?
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.
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