"You refuse to acknowledge you have lost money and therefore you are poor, " he says.

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So is Transdniestria (see article), whose pig-headed authorities refuse to acknowledge the problem.

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She said she sympathized with some mothers, but not when they refuse to acknowledge what their child has done.

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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 that will never happen when one side expects the other to make all the sacrifices and both sides refuse to acknowledge tough decisions for fear of losing votes.

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Richard remains the only king with a society devoted to rehabilitating his name, and it is a trait of some "Ricardians" to refuse to acknowledge any criticism of their hero whatever.

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The national sales tax is rife with problems which its evangelists refuse to acknowledge, such as the extremely problematic treatment of interest paid on taxed purchases, the way in which it turns churches into taxable entities, and the ways in which sales taxes in Europe have become progressively more complex as time has gone on.

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And as Cyrus points out, you routinely refuse to engage with your audience and acknowledge your numerous egregious errors.

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But she did acknowledge that she knew she could refuse to agree to the searches.

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