In this era, when powerful board members can throw out a chairman, as they've done at Coca-Cola, Kodak, General Motors and Mattel, they can refuse to go along with handing over the reins.
Pominville has a partial no-trade clause in his contract and appears to have handed a list of teams he'd refuse to play for to general manager Darcy Regier.
General Musharraf could refuse to concede the opposition's demands, suspend or dismiss parliament and try to carry on the business of government by decree.