We refuse to do anything we're told.
"It is time to act but Republicans continue to refuse to do anything to protect our communities.
So, if America continues to refuse to do anything to control its emissions, developing countries won't do anything about theirs.
In both cases their landlords refuse to do anything about it - and this is far from an exception.
"The government quietly slashed council funding for child refugees before this summer's crisis, and now the situation has changed they refuse to do anything.
These are the children who sulk and throw tantrums, refuse to do anything around the house, and suffer a permanent case of the gimmes.
Ironically it's an Iranian family who are being driven out of the block because of this person that the housing authorities refuse to do anything about.
If the Chinese will not revalue their currency voluntarily, and if China's rivals such as Korea and Indonesia refuse to do anything until China acts, then America will follow her usual unilateralist instincts.
Mr. Ford, the son of a long-serving Democratic congressman in Memphis, wrote in The Times, "I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans".
The fact is, most people subconsciously know it all within their hearts but, due to pure pig-headedness, will continue to refuse to do anything about it - which, on the whole, sums up the entire British public.
Contrast that with Trump's doctrine of collective responsibility that led him to claim repeatedly that Muslims know about terrorist attacks before they happen but refuse to do anything to stop them.
