Strip away the default male pronouns, and this is similar to the situation that confronts the media covering Donald Trump in 2016 and precisely the kind of enabling that Chris Wallace's refusal to fact-check during the Presidential debate he will moderate might resurrect.
In contrast, if the recipients' previous actions were 'D', the subjects tended to check whether their refusal to cooperate was justified.
It appears to be heading for a showdown with the United Nations over its refusal to let experts check a military complex the West suspects of producing nuclear weapons material yesterday, less than a week before the deadline for inspections runs out, it had made no move to grant access to the site.
Which was right, his earlier refusal or his later regret?In each case, Mr Sandel gently prods readers to check their gut reactions of right and wrong against three philosophical views.
Yet others – his refusal to countenance goalline technology, his failure to deal with deep-seated issues in Greece and Turkey, his reluctance to check the power of the biggest clubs – reflect badly on his laissez-faire style.
His refusal to tolerate any check on his own power stifles democracy.The pity is that until recently Mr Erdogan looked as if he would go down as his country's greatest leader since Ataturk, founder of the modern republic.
As an annual deadline looms for Los Angeles to pay nearly $4 million to a controversial pair of Department of Water and Power affiliates, one city leader announced his refusal to sign the checks and another sued to have a court-appointed receiver take over the nonprofits.
Buttressed by a strong belief prevailing in Congress that refusal to raise the limit would check growth in government spending, the limit remained at the 1946 level until 1954.
The refusal to allow the exit checks to be relaxed on the busiest days without ministerial permission echoes the row over passport checks at Heathrow airport which led to the home secretary, Theresa May, sacking Brodie Clark, a senior Home Office official.
