The vast majority of English union aficionados may have spent the last few days trying to work out how to copy the New Zealanders – or at least, how to emulate their astonishing success rate at international level – but the men running the show in the Premiership are refusing to entertain the idea of a widening gulf between southern hemisphere rugby and the stuff played in the north.
In Time, Richard Schickel wrote that, by refusing to entertain doubts about McCandless's course of action, the film is unable to impart to its audience "some sense of tragic consequence".
Republicans are trying to make the case that Senate Democratic leaders are interested in preserving the status quo and are refusing to entertain even small cuts.
Brendan Rodgers has insisted that Luis Suarez "totally understands" why Liverpool are refusing to entertain any offers for the striker in the wake of Arsenal's £40m plus £1 bid.
As a journalist, did I need to believe so badly that I'd come to Fairhope for a reason – that I'd not been lured in by a campaign for snake oil – that I was refusing to entertain reason?
While "refusing to entertain the hypothesis of trans-empirical reality at all" (James 1905e, 195) the Jamesian radical empiricist remains open to the possibility of a noumenal realm.
Insiders say the team is split down the middle with one school of thought refusing to entertain even a single percentage point drop.
In response to the drug-themed apparel, Drugfree.org, the organization behind The Medicine Abuse Project, released a statement decrying Kitson's collection and refusing to "entertain any direct donation from Kitson while they flagrantly, and without remorse, continue to sell these products".
And until Sunday, they were refusing to entertain debt relief as part of the current bailout negotiations.
CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke stressed that the club were still unbeaten in 22 games and refused to entertain thoughts about a stumble in the title-race.
