Refusal Quotes

Even if the perpetrator is angered enough by your refusal to go along with his demands, to where he wants to harm you, you still have a chance of survival if you're not under his total control.

I have exhausted the administrative process with this property and I have been met with refusal towards any compliance efforts.

London Underground's point-blank refusal to accept our compromise offer means that strike action remains on for 24 hours over New Year's Eve and over Jan. 8-9.

The biggest disappointment of my time here is the refusal to change the structure in Europe.

There are legal issues surrounding a refusal to provide service to that property.

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.

The two pillars of 'political correctness' are: a) willful ignorance b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.

The advantage to the company is if an invention works out, they have the first right of refusal to license the exclusive technology, ... the area between research and commercialization that is known as 'Death Valley.'.

A lot of Democrats feel cross-pressured. They're uneasy about Roberts' record. They're more uneasy about his refusal to answer questions about it. But they instinctively feel some measure of deference to the president on these appointments and, let's face it, Roberts was a good pick for Bush.

[This refusal to review the case] opens the door to even higher awards of punitive damages in the future and may signal that the court would tolerate higher punitive damages in cigarette cases than in others.

Who timidly requests invites refusal.

He tried to give Cameron Diaz the right of first refusal to the photographs that he had lawfully taken with her consent back in 1992 and she brought some very powerful, enormous interests to bear against him.

The agencies' refusal to list Atlantic salmon is a case study in politically driven and illegal decision-making under the Endangered Species Act.

Perhaps what we sometimes call "genius" is simply a refusal to altogether let go of childhood imagination.

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

The insistence of the Danish government to refrain from apologizing and its refusal to punish the criminals and take action to prevent this crime from being repeated... shows that the notions of freedom of speech have no roots, especially when it comes to Muslims.

It's not a case of refusal to abide by the condition. It's that the nursing home is forbidden from abiding by the condition by the law.

The usual fraud is a refusal to have children. Or you see it if somebody is homosexual, or has some kind of disease, or claims they're from nobility when they're not.

We dropped out of most of the shroud community because of the politics and backbiting and refusal to work as a team.

we are ... disappointed by your rejection in our meeting today of our proposal to acquire Vincor and your board's refusal to engage in discussions on this matter.

We were ready to meet the Ukrainian people halfway ... We received a refusal. That means the Ukrainian authorities were determined to have a conflict from the start, and from January 1 to ... start stealing gas from European consumers.

This refusal ... in effect means we cannot carry out our inspection and is a failure of Iraq to comply with its obligations.

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

Congressman Cannon should return the money he's taken from any questionable sources. Cannon's continued refusal to return this dirty money raises serious questions about Cannon's own conduct and the direction of his moral compass.