Sometimes the feelings you're running from can be resolved in a fairly short period of time and you can free yourself from the pattern for good simply by refusing to run from it.
Mrs. Parks helped transform a nation by refusing to budge from her seat.
But we can feel that we have some control by refusing to buy from a company that has sold us a lemon or provided terrible service.
This dysfunction was on full display in August when Republicans nearly pushed the government into default by refusing to budge from their fealty to Norquist.
Earlier, in 1960, Mr. Miller defied the laws of his church by refusing to read from the pulpit a pastoral letter issued by the Episcopal House of Bishops.
Andrew (his real last name is Wilkes-Krier, but he never uses it) became a star by refusing to deviate from this program of mind-numbing geniality.
The cartoon seemed to evoke the most famous photograph of the Tiananmen protests, in which an unarmed man brought a column of Chinese tanks to a standstill by refusing to move from their path.
Hodge welcomed the announcement but said HMRC needed to "get tougher", such as naming and shaming firms, taking more cases to court and exploiting its buying power by refusing to purchase from companies that did not pay full corporation tax.
After the success of "The Sixth Sense," he criticized Disney executives, dared to compare his talent to Steven Spielberg's and Alfred Hitchcock's and has steadfastly asserted his reputation as an outsider by refusing to move from Philadelphia to Hollywood.
By refusing to deviate from his tried-and-true stand-up routines of two decades ago, Crystal managed to both send the Oscars into a timewarp and traduce his own memory.
It even handled adroitly the problem of Chile's former dictator, Augusto Pinochet, by insisting that he must face the human-rights charges filed against him in Chilean courts, and by refusing to budge from that position when General Pinochet's supporters and the army objected.
