We can, as Dave Ramsey proclaims, refuse to take part in an economic downturn.
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Other measures include making criminals pay the entire cost of their defence if they refuse to take part in means testing.
With hedge funds now holding a proportion of the bonds and threatening to refuse to take part in the deal, the scope for negotiation may be limited.
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And in 2000, the Spanish Football Federation said it radically opposed Gibraltar's membership of the organisation and would refuse to take part in any competition which involved the colony.
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The 72-year-old Reverend Ian Paisley, the leader of the one big political party to refuse to take part in peace talks, continues to hold many would-be moderates in check.
It demanded a binding agreement that Slovakia would refuse to take part in the European Stabilisation Mechanism - which is meant to replace the EFSF in 2013 - and a veto over future bailout disbursements from the EFSF.
He was only the third person in its history to refuse to take part after family and friends had gathered in a studio.
It is after all less than 20 years since Sinn Fein's policy was to refuse to take up any seats in won in the Irish parliament, the Dail, on the grounds that the assembly was created by the treaty which partitioned Ireland in the early 1920s.
However, all refuse collections that were due to take place in Coventry, Nuneaton and Bedworth were suspended.
But more than anything, it will take a willingness to look past our differences, to act in good faith, to refuse to continue the failures of the past, and to take on this challenge together -- for the benefit not just of this generation, but generations to come.
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On the other hand, if a large number of states refuse to take any action, it would give those in Washington who really want a narrow, federal solution full license to impose a one-size-fits-all solution.
But the first day's proceedings were overshadowed by a decision by Pakistan's chief justice, Said-uz Zaman Siddiqi, and five other Supreme Court judges, to refuse to take an oath of allegiance that would have in effect bound them to the army-led administration that has run the country since the coup in October.
Refuse collectors in Hull have said they are prepared to take industrial action over proposed job cuts.
It might be useful in patients who are poorly controlled on warfarin or refuse to take it.
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We believe that there is time and space to continue to pursue that approach, even as we refuse and make clear that we do not take any option off the table in our effort to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
If President Obama and the Democrats refuse, let the automatic spending cuts trigger, and take the case to the people in 2012.
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"We will present a clear choice to Iran to take its rightful place in the community of nations, including its right to peaceful nuclear energy, or continue to refuse to meet its international obligations, " he said.
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