One of them, Samer Issawi, has refused food, existing on water and nonfood supplements, for much of the past 200 days, according to groups following his case.
Republicans, sceptical about Iran's intentions, might not only refuse to lift existing sanctions but vote for the introduction of even more sanctions.
They are taking the apps they have built off the market, will not develop any more, and refuse to update existing apps.
Several inequities of the current health system, including the practice of health insurance firms refusing payment for existing conditions, would be removed.
The Obama administration has arrogantly refused to enforce existing immigration laws, and states have been left with no option but to enforce the laws and protect their citizens themselves.
Looking back on my political activism of the 1970s and 80s, there was a lot of refusing to accept existing conditions on the basis that they were "wrong and foolish".
FEMA deserves plenty of blame, but so do the local officials who refused to ease existing restrictions and even ratcheted up land-use and building regulations.
Yankovic refused to scan existing copies of the album to make new ones, fearing that it would lead to an inferior product.
That is: she refuses to dismantle the existing anti-sodomy law, while also refusing to sign two new bills that toughen the law.
If it did, though, the ECtHR was not persuaded that the US authorities would refuse to use existing procedures under which these applicants might be freed.
