Senior managers buy these expensive software packages without consulting their troops, who then refuse to use the system.
But even Gordon thinks it is odd when I refuse to use the motor launch to inspect the oyster beds.
Some refuse to use a bank for religious reasons: many Bangladeshis and Pakistanis do not have accounts because Islamic tenets conflict with modern banking practices.
But there are some who will refuse to use a telephone or want you to use technology X to hold your meeting or have it at time Y.
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Before now Phorm has been expecting to operate on an "opt out" basis where every customer of ISPs that have signed up is enrolled unless they explicitly refuse to use it.
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.
Its decision to refuse planning permission for change of use on road safety grounds has now been over-ruled.
By contrast, those who refuse to stoop to sanitised corporatese may cannily use their gaffes to burnish popular, straight-talking personas - as US Vice President Joe Biden and London Mayor Boris Johnson have managed to do.
Taxpayers should never use tax return preparers who refuse to sign returns and enter PTINs.
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Some runners who don't use the strategy hate it so much they refuse to discuss it for fear of providing encouragement.
What use are trade rules if the world's big economies refuse to abide by them?
To guard his identity, a cyberstalker may use numerous ISPs and e-mail providers, all of which typically refuse to release clients' identities.
But while people buying an old one-day pink travel card could use it on the buses, Tube and overland rail, many train companies refuse to accept the equivalent pay-as-you-go on Oyster.
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For one thing, Microsoft beat up on Palm the same way it took out many of its competitors in the desktop OS space: by putting pressure on hardware vendors to use its operating system, and offering it at a price they couldn't refuse.
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