Though he flirted with solipsism, Emerson in the end refused it for emotional reasons.
What could you do with a man who first declared, with great emphasis, that the one thing he had learned in an ill-spent life was that one should never take an oath ("Today no man, no judge could ever persuade me to make a sworn statement. I refuse it; I refuse it for moral reasons.
She said that setting up the truth commission could allow an Argentine judge to question the Iranian suspects, and she described it as an important achievement: "We succeeded in persuading Iran to agree to have a discussion about the amia issue when they had refused it for decades".
Although we proposed an alternative plan of neoadjuvant chemotherapy, she strongly refused it for fear of severe adverse effect which she had experienced after initial recurrence.
By reaching for the sword, instead of refusing it and waiting for it to be given to him, he has shown that his heart is impure.
This expectation, that men are always ready for sex and women are always refusing it, is harmful for men and women.
Now that an adult has seen through your purpose and has refused, it is for a good reason.
But for 20 years, the Indians living in the poorest county in America have refused it, holding out for the return of their sacred hills.
Mr Martin, outmanoeuvred, offered his resignation, but Mr Cowen has, for now, refused it.
Burkina Faso's national HIV Counseling and Testing (HCT) policy adds that counselors must respect client "autonomy" and understand their reasons for refusing; it recommends improved counseling for more women to accept testing [ 35].
