Although now against the proposal, Swindon council is following suit by citing other reasons for refusal – including environmental ones.
According to the lawsuit, more than 100 cabbies have had their licenses revoked or suspended under Operation Refusal, including two of the three named plaintiffs, John Padberg and Rashid Ahmed.
Declining such awards can mean turning down money as well as prestige, and when Jean-Paul Sartre, the French writer, bowed out of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964, his refusal included the $53,000 that accompanies it.
There are many different theories surrounding his refusal, including that he would only accept clemency if the deal was offered to every single incarcerated Puerto Rican political prisoner, and that he would not renounce the use of violence to overthrow the US government, which was a requirement of the proposed deal.
Reasons for refusal included poor performance status (44 %), poor prior quality of life (20 %), no specific anticancer treatment option (72 %), allogeneic stem cell transplantation with uncontrolled graft-versus-host disease (13.4 %) and expected burden of ICU (15 %).
Primary reasons for refusal included not wanting blood taken, not wanting to learn HIV status, and partner/parental objection.
Primary reasons for refusal included not wanting blood taken (37%), partner/parental objection (19%), and not wanting to be tested for or learn one's HIV status (18%).
Reasons volunteered for refusal included being too busy to participate.
Reasons for refusal included merely "no interest"or "no time".
