The FBI won't discuss what they found, if anything, and after awhile the Sheriff's Office adopted a simple refuse-to-comment policy on the case.
Some talked or wrote around it, turning "denied certiorari" into the simpler "refused to review lower court decisions".
She felt that it was not worth getting angry and starting a quarrel when the solution was simple: just refuse to comply with future demands.
Despite instructions repeated ad nauseam, passengers slow the process by failing to heed simple rules, refusing to remove shoes until challenged and attempting to carry liquids in their carry-on luggage, all the while carping about the inconvenience.
And, of course, tax fraud can be as simple as refusing to file and pay taxes.
Islamist leaders drive simple cars, and refuse to trade their parliamentary position for favors and bribes, the party argues, in a system awash with bribes, kickbacks and other opportunities to get rich quickly and illegally.
Novices, monks, and nuns must obey these same rules (with complete chastity added to the third) as well as refrain from eating after noon, avoid all musical and theatrical enjoyments, refrain from wearing jewelry or cosmetics, sleep only on a very simple bed, and refuse gifts of gold or silver.
If we live by that and these other simple rules, and refuse to normalize him, we can keep Trump from causing maximum harm.
Simple actions like refusing to pay a bribe or speaking up about an unjust policy could go a long way.
A lawyer, Zhou Ze, said his journalist client, Liu Hu, had a simple reason for refusing to record a confession: "He did not believe he was guilty".
As for Japan, it controls the demand for nursing-home places by the simple expedient of refusing to let into a nursing home any elderly person who has a living relation.
