Other times, perhaps end-users will refuse and just live without official IT support.

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In disasters like Katrina we saw how stupid and harmful it is to refuse the services of doctors just because they had an out-of-state address.

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"It shows black people now refuse to vote just on the colour of skin, policies such as the war and education also have a big impact, " OBV director Simon Woolley said.

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It was so bad she had to just turn around and refuse to speak with Stevecrest (who's used to that by now).

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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.

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The Internet, e-mail, cell phones, web browsers, social networking sites, search engines: these have become necessities, and it's fanciful to expect people to simply refuse to use them just because they don't like the spying, especially since the full extent of such spying is deliberately hidden from us and there are few alternatives being marketed by companies that don't spy.

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It is just possible that the Greek people will have their say, that they will simply refuse to go along with austerity plans demanded by outsiders, their creditors.

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