First, refuse to prolong the time between innings for commercials.
The Greek ambassador refused to agree to the key passage on sanctions – prolonging the blacklisting of 132 individuals and 28 "entities", mainly in eastern Ukraine and Crimea.
Trump has refused to budge on the demand for wall money, prolonging the government shutdown he provoked.
Given to tantrums and drunken benders, Ernie is a raging depressive who knows that his days are numbered and refuses to have surgery to prolong a life that has lost most of its zest.
It took him five years to recruit the women, he said, adding that many refused to be in the study because they believed so strongly in the power of a support group to prolong their lives.
Opposition parties refused to recognise a referendum held in 1996 which vastly increased presidential powers and prolonged his term until 2001.
Microsoft imposed burdensome restrictions on its customers to augment and prolong its monopoly power -- such as restricting OEMs from promoting non-Microsoft software, and punished them if they refused to cooperate.
Martoma refused to coöperate.
