They do so because of a refusal by innovators to leave a bad idea alone.
This usually means a refusal to supply a document or a piece of information on demand.
"There's been no assertion of executive privilege, just a refusal to answer, " Lieberman said.
Mrs Kelly said a refusal to sell alcohol to underage drinkers was often the cause of attacks.
Planning officers had recommended a refusal because of concerns over the impact on the landscape and local residents.
Was this a brilliant compromise or a refusal to take a hard decision?
Gary McKinnon, 43, from Wood Green, London, wants to overturn a refusal to put him on trial in the UK on charges of computer misuse.
Yet, if statesmanship means anything, it should be a refusal to pander.
Audrie Pott's father, mother and stepmother said they were outraged by what they see as a refusal to take responsibility by the teens.
The less-than-optimal response is continued full confidence in my original belief, and a refusal to accept the possibility that the new reality is true.
That may seem counter-intuitive: with their big engines and Tonka-toy looks, trucks suggest a refusal to compromise with fuel prices or fears of global warming.
Excessive grooming can be a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder, aggression and violence can indicate anxiety, and a refusal to eat can suggest depression in an animal.
The practice requires filing of full and complete tax returns, accompanied by a refusal to pay in part or in whole for reasons based on religion or conscience.
It is already spinning Washington's and London's absence into a refusal to deal with the demand-side of the problem - the huge appetite for illegal drugs in their markets.
If most people carry their entire medical history on a plastic card that the emergency services come to rely on, a refusal to carry the card could be life-threatening.
But Mr Hussein also knows that a refusal to comply would go down badly even with countries that have been reluctant to endorse the use of force against Iraq.
Although none have yet been named, the members of the committee look like they will be chosen on the basis of one thing: A refusal to compromise in any way.
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The Russian refusal to budge has played well with supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has cast it as a refusal to bend to Western pressure or sell out friends.
Senator Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, who staked his future as a campaign-finance crusader on a refusal to accept soft money, defeated an opponent flush with dollars from the national Republican Party.
The officer says that if the information exists or is held, ministers had to either inform Ms Stihler or issue a refusal notice explaining why it judged the disclosure to be exempt.
And if the position is that the middle class ought to have its taxes go up and then get stuck again because of a refusal of Congress to do its job, that's just absolutely unacceptable.
If no additional revenue is coming in due to a refusal to raise taxes, coupled with the dramatically falling property tax revenues, government officials have no recourse but to go to the negotiating table with unions.
They said they were outraged by what they see as a refusal to take responsibility by the three boys arrested in the attack on the 15-year-old girl in Saratoga, a bedroom community on the fringe of Silicon Valley.
His daughter made it so with a refusal to lose, even when she failed to cash in on her best shot of the day, an approach on the first extra hole that left her with a 6-foot putt to win.
However, the attorney general's decision said that if the traveler declined to give consent, it would be made clear that a refusal would be taken into consideration, along with other relevant factors, in deciding whether to allow entry into Israel.
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It is very likely that a key disclosure case will make it to the U.S. Supreme Court where it is far from certain that the Fifth Amendment privilege, as it relates to a refusal to decrypt bitcoin assets, will be universally upheld.
There is almost a refusal to believe that the Euro is inflicting so much damage. 20 years ago I spent a lot of my time in the corridors here working on broadband trials, sketching out papers on 3G for European scientists and imagining what commercial satellites would be used for.
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They wanted a first refusal and were prepared to take a court case to establish their rights.
The judge handed the defense another setback when he issued a written refusal to reconsider his order barring testimony by Christian Reichardt, a former boyfriend of Faye Resnick.
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