Just after Hingis advanced to the quarterfinals by dismantling a beleaguered Anke Huber, 6-1, 6-2, she refused a chance to snip at the Williams sisters, fully aware of her predicament.
Nor does he include one of the best essays in the modern continental tradition on friendship, death and suicide, "The Experience of Death" (1938) by Paul-Louis Landsberg, a German Jewish Catholic who refused a chance to flee and died in a Nazi camp.
Kevin Costner was refused a chance to visit the set.
Because many holders of Kraft debt can own only issues of companies with investment-grade credit, a lot of the selling in Kraft bonds has come from holders refusing to take a chance on such a downgrade.
For "The Ladies Who Lunch," a great number that will always be owned by Elaine Stritch, and is sung well enough here by Barbara Walsh, Doyle avoids both invidious comparison and showstopping expectation by strategically running the song directly into the ensuing dialogue, thus refusing the audience a chance to respond.
The Raiders refused to squander a chance to correct that.
Although his request to change was initially refused, he had a chance encounter in a lift with the legal scholar Clive Parry, who clearly saw something in Lloyd and made sure he got on to the law conversion course.
So maybe the question is, what are we missing out on when we refuse to take a chance?
The decision by Christie, the 1992 Olympic 100-meter champion, who tested positive while running at an indoor meet in 1999, ended the embarrassing chance of being refused a credential by the British Olympic Association.
Sherman, believing this to be his best chance for election, refused, a decision which Hanna accepted, fighting for Sherman to the end.
