It is not common, however, for religion to present hard refusals that elide creative workarounds when the potential consequences of declining to use the medicine are so dire.
Reasons for a refusal are divided into "hard" and "soft": Hard refusals include reasons that do not allow the re-approach of a target person by an interviewer (e.g., data confidentiality), whereas cases with soft refusals (such as "no time") may legally be recontacted.
European governments and their counter-terrorism officials will also have noted that Britain's hard line refusal to make substantive concessions to kidnappers comes at a heavy price.
I was particularly moved that Administrator Jackson recognized the efforts of the member organizations of the Energy Action Coalition, and that she would take the time to thanks us for our hard work, refusal to settle, and for keeping the pressure on when backing down might have been easier or more politically convenient.
It's a lovely introduction to a comic exploring the transition from childhood to adulthood, frankly addressing the pitfalls he's pitched into – and celebrating his own hard-won refusal to fit in.
His brand of mercy is not a warm bath of tender feelings but a hard-edged refusal to think the worst not only of those in trouble, or of his critics, but of himself.
The standoff lasted eight days, broken by a cutoff of goods and food by the company (or possibly the Chinese labor contractors), and the company's hard-nosed refusal to negotiate.
Of those who answered calls, some completed the survey and these responses were designated as "Complete," whereas the "Others" category included: hard or soft refusal to complete the survey, no eligible respondents, surveys to be faxed or mailed, partial completion, and other data file errors.
While the old matter of bioethics was still alive and while judges were improving their skill in dealing with hard matters, like refusal of medical treatments, abortion, euthanasia et cetera, a new challenge appeared on the horizon, the challenge of biological sciences, and especially of the most troubled field of human genetics.
