The husband, caught out, refuses to react and instead starts acting.
"We can refuse to react and congestion will get worse or we can build more roads," says Glaister.
"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.
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.
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.
If you're faced with someone who refuses to react to your tips, don't panic or lose your temper.
The president's decree awards four extra seats to the more prosperous east at the expense of the highland west.Foolish words and actionsIran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, refused to recant after western leaders reacted with outrage to his remarks last week that Israel's "occupying regime" should be "wiped off the map".
Jackson refused to recant.
