Even the threat of a refusal to raise the debt ceiling is playing some havoc with markets and exchange rates and has helped push interest rates higher.
Britain has so far offered the strongest acknowledgment that Europe is increasingly under threat of North Korea's refusal to stop its nuclear and missile tests, as well.
Certainly it is not a controlling constitutional distinction that New York, rather than impose on employees, as in Garner and Beilan, an absolute duty to respond to permissible inquiry upon threat of dismissal for refusal, has in these proceedings held that an employee lacking in candor to his governmental employer evidences doubt as to his trust and reliability.
And for as many years, Risen has refused to reveal the identity of his source, even facing the threat of imprisonment for his refusal.
In his introduction, Beinart outlines a number of the early-warning signs that a spell of myopia is about to deliver a catastrophe: doctrinaire mental habits, belief in preordained success, contempt for the counsel of allies, pervasive fear of threats, refusal to prioritize enemies.
In 2010, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats used the threat of a gilt strike – a refusal of nervous foreign investors to lend to the UK government – to warn that without a stable coalition focused on spending cuts, the UK could find itself in a Greek-style crisis.
And like any such commodity, it is subject to tremendous instability as lobbyists press to adjust the cap in response to changing economic conditions or the threat of layoffs or, say, the refusal of China and India and Brazil to follow suit with their own carbon caps.
Threats of breakaways and refusal to release players are being treated with disdain by Uefa boss Michel Platini who says he will throw clubs out of Europe if they try to go it alone.
For example, Russian ambassador, Otto von Stackelberg, declared that in the face of refusal the whole capital of Warsaw would be destroyed by the Russians; other threats included executions, confiscation of estates, and increase of partitioned territory.
They're easily available over the internet, resulting in the extinction of these species based to trade alone and the refusal to accept the threat of trade.
