Mr. Barak has made such a public point of his refusal to concede it that it would be difficult for him to change his mind.
Isis competes with a variety of attempts at building a functional mobile wallet, including Google's own NFC-based application, Google Wallet, which has also had troubles at point-of-sale as well as refusal by carriers to support the app so they can move forward with Isis.
They point to the refusal of the Fish and Wildlife Service to elevate the bears from threatened to endangered, for example.
With her indulgent upbringing, Emily is already independent to the point of folly, and her refusal to placate her husband quickens the tragedy.
But I always assumed that the whole point of Obama's persistent refusal to offer anything all that bold on entitlement reform in public was to keep the issue on the table for election-year demagoguery.
As a point of principle, Obama's refusal to give into that political reflex shows that he really is committed to peacemaking.
This magical thinking has already had its three strikes: its rejection by the British people at the general election, its embodiment in Jeremy Corbyn as a clearly unelectable potential Labour leader (a candidacy facilitated by Ed's legacy) and the point-blank refusal of some sections of the party to listen to what the public and Labour voters are telling us about 'welfare' spending".
This point-blank refusal of pity was central to how Gyllenhaal saw the character of Sherry Swanson.
The departure point is the refusal of the concept of informal "sector", in favour of the term "modality" of informal transformation.
The main point of contention, it seems, was the refusal to let him give Botticelli's Venus the head of a fish.
This point blank refusal to sanctify the great and storied tradition of drinking until you choke on pizza crusts and fall in puddles.
