It is an article of faith in France that Britain practises "social dumping", undermining French industry by refusing to impose decent minimum standards on employers.
In the lead-up to the Games, African nations believed Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was wrong for refusing to impose economic sanctions on a regime committed to racial segregation.
Former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher also described Mandela's ANC as a "typical terrorist organization" in 1987, refusing to impose sanctions on South Africa's apartheid regime.
Despite all the evidence, all the warnings, Labour in government refused to impose transitional controls in 2004 and you now seek to lecture us about immigration.
In the drug case, Judge Martini refused to impose a mandatory 40-year sentence, which he said was excessive for a street-level trafficker.
"I accept my church's position on abortion, I accept it in my personal life, but I refuse to impose that on others.
Even now, after open warfare had started, Gage still refused to impose martial law in Boston.
He has refused to impose it himself, and so voters should, in our view, impose it on him, given a viable alternative.
In January, NGN won the first round of litigation when a high court judge refused to impose an injunction.
