But at a packed planning committee meeting it became astonishingly clear that the council were too fearful of the financial implications to refuse Tesco permission to go ahead.
The conception of impartiality that tends to be favored by deontologists avoids such implications by refusing to view impartial action simply as a matter of maximizing interests (or some other version of the impersonally determined good).
What are the mechanisms, existing or proposed as well as legal or business custom, for protecting information contained in databases generally, and what are the policy implications of allowing or refusing protection for genomic and genetic databases, whether through intellectual property or sui generis protection?
For decades each side, convinced of its own correctness, and the policy implications of that correctness, refused to see any merit in the arguments of the other.
Where children were positive but the mother had refused testing, the implications of the child's results were clearly explained.
Most believers refuse to face the implications of their own beliefs in this regard, except when it suits them: that is, when they think they have been "saved" by God from some terrible calamity.
After the Navy launched Operation Market Time, it refused to consider the implications of the Bucklew report.
But they refuse to recognize the implications of that statement, such as the fact that he was willing to compromise, was happy to engage with Democrats to make the thing work.
Nagisa Oshima's elegant historical film "Gohatta" recycles a familiar metaphor -- male homosexuality as a symbol of decadence -- that is so loaded with dramatic implication it simply refuses to die.
Worse yet, the Court refused to even admit the implications of its decisions for its prior jurisprudence.
Worse, the polar balloon Örnen (The Eagle) was delivered directly to Svalbard from its manufacturer in Paris without being tested; when measurements showed it to be leaking more than expected, Andrée refused to acknowledge the alarming implications of this.
