(In my state of Rhode Island, this should have meant refusing even to criminalize prostitution, as we did last year after 30 years of legalization; other states are sure to have their own idiosyncrasies).
It has also meant refusing to blink when bigger companies with deeper pockets infringed Corning's patents and sought to outspend it in the law courts, as when, one by one, wealthy corporations tried to muscle their way into Corning's optical fibre business.
The slow death of outspoken liberalism out in public [in Pakistan] has meant that clerics refused to lead the prayers at Taseer's funeral, fearing reprisal from Islamist hardliners.
Thus the participants question such use, especially if the patient realizes that while the use of the GIR has meant his being refused for renal transplantation, he would have been accepted by the current method.
Likewise, it has meant difficult choices like refusing to participate in public conversations on big issues of our times that are essentially spectacles of vicious verbal fights, and nothing more.
UK, white, female [ 24] For others, it meant refusing to become an organ donor so that their families would not have to see their body following organ recovery.
Mr. Malema told reporters that he had meant the remark only figuratively, but refused to apologize.
But, he said, his refusing this deal would have meant Mr. Echols stayed on death row.
Refusing would likely have meant being indefinitely imprisoned, tortured, or killed.
If he had been refused bail, it would have meant the court had become a political arena".
