In view of our decision on this phase of the case, it is unnecessary to reach the question whether the single conviction for contempt (which was based on the refusal to give incriminating testimony and on the refusal to reveal a confidential marital communication) would be valid if petitioner were entitled to claim one, but not both, of the privileges.
I see us bouncing from one policy to the next, based on our refusal to look at the mess that we've gotten ourselves into -- specifically the killing, the misery, and the devastation that we caused years ago in Vietnam and repeated in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In setting his policy, however, Goodman is at odds with an American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation that pediatricians work with parents who refuse vaccines and not discharge patients from practices solely based on parents' refusal to immunize them.
Appellee mounts an additional attack on the Massachusetts oath program in that it does not provide for a hearing prior to the determination not to hire the individual based on the refusal to subscribe to the oath.
But Mr. Shyamalan, who says he has become press shy, offers no apologies and believes that some of the criticism about him was largely based on his refusal to accept Hollywood norms.
It's an ideology that is explicitly based on a refusal to compromise with squalid reality, and dedicated to cheerleading for war whenever one looks practical, and a rather coarse and unattractive self-aggrandisement of the US at the expense of all other countries (particularly Muslim ones) at all other times.
Eagle-eyed students of geography will have noticed that Cork and Dublin are different places, separated by 160 miles and centuries of mutual suspicion, based on Dubliners' refusal to accept that Cork is the better city ("Have you heard about the Corkman with the inferiority complex?", goes the joke. "He thought he was the same as everyone else").
"Building settlements in occupied territories was the single most grave error and sin in the history of modern Zionism, because it was based on a refusal to accept the simple fact that we are not alone in this country," he told me.
Based on their refusal to be transparent about their plans for cuts, the Republicans in Congress apparently agree.
Although fundamentally based on a refusal to accept mistakes or faults, perfectionism can present itself in many ways.
