Vermont is declining to permit continued operation of the Vermont Yankee plant, owned, like Indian Point, by Entergy, for operation beyond the expiration of its license next spring.
On Thursday, the Republicans declined to permit an up-or-down vote on the Hagel nomination, something that has never before happened with a prospective secretary of defense.
The company's former auditor, KPMG, declined to permit the use of its 2002 audit because it had received a grand jury subpoena for documents.
PAGE A14 DETAINEE CLEARED OF CHARGES Susan J. Crawford, the Pentagon official in charge of war crimes cases, declined to permit a case to proceed against one of six detainees charged in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, dismissing the charges against a man who had been subjected to aggressive interrogation at the United States prison at Guant?mo Bay, Cuba.
There have been instances of litigation over the termination of life support even though there was a fully executed living will, because family declined to permit the non-family member to conclude the process since there was not a definitive declaration of wishes other than the living will form.
Appropriately, Judge Torres declined to permit this "wait-and-see" maneuver, concluding in a carefully-reasoned, 108-page opinion that the unions' attempt to intervene came far too late.
The patient's family declined to permit an autopsy.
Three of the 50 parents from whom consent was sought declined to permit their child's participation.
It would send a strong message, that the people who have posted the highest profits during this decline are not willing to permit the next generation or producers and innovators and teachers and healers to be saddled with debt at a time when jobs are unavailable.
Although two senior Irish diplomats were in Switzerland at the time, neither attended Joyce's funeral, and the Irish government later declined Nora's offer to permit the repatriation of Joyce's remains.
