However, it is important that individuals feel able to refuse such a conversation and don't feel obliged to make a particular decision or infer that they will receive lower levels of care.
If there is any worry at all about the motivation of the Red Knights, who claim they are moving into position to make the Glazer family an offer they will not be able to refuse, it is a theoretical one for most of the United fans at this point, if not the manager and creator of all the club's current strength, Sir Alex Ferguson.
In one set of training scenarios used by the Marines, for example, the guidelines explain that a military recruiter with strong religious feelings against homosexuality will no longer be able to refuse to process a gay applicant, but — because of freedom of religious expression — a military chaplain will be allowed to preach in a base chapel that homosexuality is a sin.
The taxmen will not be able to refuse to register a scheme, but they will know all its details, and can in effect ban it overnight by announcing that retroactive legislation will be coming later.
Can you imagine any other profession in which people would be able to refuse to do a key part of their job - and at the point when it was of most importance for their employer - and yet still trouser their full salary?
First, Ms. Hallenborg said, since the friend does not have a current lease, the landlord would be able to refuse to consent to a sublet unless a new lease was signed.
Groups running federally funded programs might be able to refuse to hire an applicant because he had been divorced, or fire a worker who has a child out of wedlock.
"Mark won't be able to refuse her not only a trip to Canada but also a starting position," said Passmoor.
Patients are able to refuse or decline transport despite a recommendation for conveyance on the understanding they are able to give informed consent.
The Crown is able to refuse or withhold royal assent to a bill in parliament, if it considers that important freedoms or the nation's peace is at risk.
