In Webster City, Cruz stuck to the plan, refusing to counter-attack.
Fully cognizant of that fact, Hillary Clinton and her husband have stolidly refused to directly counter Trump's nastiest charges ("predator," "enabler").
The company refused to discuss counter-offers, and rejected out of hand a package of incentives proposed by state and local officials to save the plant.
When almost two-thirds of your organization has decided well in advance their opinion and refuse to listen to counter arguments, there is a strong likelihood of rigid thinking and decision making.
In addition new supplies have come from Iraq, while Opec, led by Saudi Arabia, has refused to cut back output to counter the price slump, as it has in the past.
There will be no more until the middle of February at the earliest.The board argues that the musicians have refused to make any counter-offer besides a wage freeze.
Young people have certainly been instrumental to political upheavals before — in 1960, in Greensboro, North Carolina, four black men, none older than nineteen, sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter and refused to leave (a portion of that lunch counter is now on display here, less than a mile from the rally, in the National Museum of American History).
But the woman behind the counter refused to open the cash register, instead offering the would-be robber "a cup of coffee" instead.
"One of them shouted, 'Oh look, a bunch of trannies,' and I legged it over to the shop round the corner to get some help, but the bloke behind the counter refused to do anything.
"We asked the police officers to shoot them with pistols and the police officers refused to shoot them," Khamis counter-claimed.
