"We can refuse to react and congestion will get worse or we can build more roads," says Glaister.
With the second piece of Opus 19, you come to realize that the entire picture is defined by two repeated strokes, the unchanging G and B. Two-thirds of a G-major chord, they at first give off a warm hum, but there is something odd about the way they refuse to react to the wisps of sound that trail around them.
The husband, caught out, refuses to react and instead starts acting.
"She almost refuses to react," said MarySue Barrett, a former colleague, adding that Ms. Jarrett often surprises opponents by agreeing with them and then suggesting concrete measures to help.
In Mark Ravenhill's The Mother we see Sarah Alexander, as a woman learning of her son's death on active service, refusing to react with the expected decorum.
Moscow's mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, pays lip service to tolerance, but the city police keep on stopping dark-skinned or Asian-looking people to "check their passports", while refusing to react when the same people get bludgeoned in the metro by groups of skinheads.The message has been heard in the big-city suburbs, where most of the dissatisfied young men reside.
He also refused to react to comments by his predecessor Harry Redknapp, appearing to criticise modern managers in the mould of Villas-Boas who present players with "70-page dossiers".
Some victims gave signs of life during the disposal of the corpses, but the guards routinely refused to react.
If you're faced with someone who refuses to react to your tips, don't panic or lose your temper.
The Russians might refuse to budge, and react with even more violence.
Acknowledge when your partner does something funny, but refuse to allow yourself to react.
