Examples of negative sanctions include the following: refusing to export (embargoes), refusing to import (boycotts), covert refusals to trade (blacklists), purchases intended to keep goods out of the hands of target countries (preclusive buying), deprivation of ownership (expropriation), punitive taxation, aid suspensions, and asset freezes.
Patients have free choice of the physician with whom they register, with the proviso that they cannot be accepted by one who already has a full list and that a physician can refuse to accept them (though such refusals are rare).
The government insists the extradition flow has not been entirely westward: between January 2004 and April 2012, England and Wales sent 83 people to America (refusing nine requests) while America handed over 41 (with no refusals).
In other words, William defines force and prevention of the will in terms of higher-order volitions and refusals: for the will to be forced is for it to refuse to will X and nonetheless be made to will X, and for it to be prevented is for it to will to will X and be made to refuse X.
Both of these refusals were more than mere token rejections of the baubles of privilege – they were genuine reflections of the modest ambitions of an over-modest man.
Mr Ozawa is soon to stand trial on similar charges.He doth protest too much?The rumour-mill turned its attention to Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, as speculation mounted that, despite past refusals, he is again considering entering the Republican nomination race.
They say the illegal building is the result of decades of Israeli refusals to grant building licences to Palestinians.
A Palestinian official says the number of refusals has soared, despite the need to rebuild Gaza after the 50-day war between Hamas and Israel this summer.
A recent graduate and now an office worker in Bogotá, she was more bothered by the bureaucratic rigmarole that preceded a normal bank branch's refusals of a credit card and approval of a very small loan.Big banks will tread carefully, nonetheless.
My research into the workings of the 2000 act revealed that 75% of appeals to the information commissioner related to refusals by government departments.
The incidents, detailed in a report released this week, range from religious slurs and refusals by schools and employers to allow women to wear the hejab headscarf, to people vandalising mosques and physical attacks on Muslims.
