When it comes to laying bets, bookmakers are very suspicious about large bets on unlikely events, and in general will refuse very large bets.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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As long as Janet Napolitano, Attorney General Eric Holder, the intelligence community, law enforcement, the military, the media and most especially President Obama refuse to acknowledge what animates our enemies, we will never develop an effective strategy for defeating them, let alone successfully implement it.

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