Given the potency such offers possess, one might suspect that there are many offers that one cannot reasonably refuse, possibly reflecting great imbalances in power or prior historical injustices between the bargaining parties.
First among these is the lack of effective democratic control by the vast majority of the world's population, as large multinationals are able to impose demands on states that are in a weak economic position and their populations, demands that they cannot reasonably refuse to meet, although this does not mean that they meet them fully voluntarily.
Though the fact that Q's will was overborne would seem compatible with the claim that Q has been coerced, few besides Frankfurt have taken such overburdening to be a necessary condition for coercion to take place.[14] Short of generating psychological compulsion, one might hold that coercion involves the imposition of an option which no one could reasonably refuse to take.
Indeed, accurate and complete clinical information is so essential for the interpretation of genome-level DNA sequence findings that the laboratory can reasonably refuse to proceed with the testing if such information is not provided with the test sample.
She had offered to read the novel, but he had refused — reasonably enough, for she's not really a literary sort of person.
Never before politically active, I got off the sidelines when insurers refused to sell reasonably priced policies to my children because of their "pre-existing conditions".
And yet, in the heat of this crisis, Alan Partridge keeps returning to the microphone to ask his listeners whether a binman can reasonably expect a Christmas tip after he's refused to dispose of a broken toaster.
It also refused to pay the fee my GP had (quite reasonably, in my view) charged to help with the claim – even though his involvement was demanded by Global Response in order to even consider it.
But the agency refused, arguing the information was "exempted since disclosure could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings".
