The various formulations of the Taliban 'moderate' position have many different nuances but they all have in common a total refusal to talk to Hamid Karzai.
"Nature has bred in both an unusual abundance of anger, enormous resilience and a total refusal to accept their fate," Mr. Ahmad writes.
If ever unequivocal evidence was needed of this Labour government's utter contempt for ordinary people's opinions and their total refusal to listen to grassroots feelings on matters of concern, this incident has provided it.
Parminder, unwisely but uncontrollably, then spells out what this man's total refusal to lose weight has cost the NHS in heart operations, expensive drugs, constant appointments and so on.
Oliver, Frank Yes, but I very much regret the total refusal of anyone in the government, at any time in the last four years, to make out a positive case for adopting the euro.
No magical shots, birdie charges, and not even too many amazing escapes: it's just been trudge, plod, hack, a complete and total refusal to kow-tow to a difficult set-up and hellish conditions.
She learned to tolerate his total refusal to leave the house during Saturday football games, and he became a part of her large network of friends from high school and college.
"Had it not been for their total refusal to accept my need to rock," she says, "I might have stayed in Ohio and married a biker and be reaching under the sofa for my teeth right now".
What is peculiar to Julian is his total refusal to negotiate in any way, as is proven by his dangerous decision to ban Christians from teaching the Greek classics, since he was well aware that Christian intellectuals were deeply immersed in Greek culture and highly valued it.
From the outstanding American international Samu Manoa to Tom Wood and Dylan Hartley there was a total refusal to take a backward step, underlined when Charlie Hodgson was smashed out of the contest inside the first half-hour after shipping heavy blows from Manoa and Courtney Lawes.
