Meanwhile, the RBS chairman, Sir Philip Hampton, adds to the pressure on Mr Hester by voluntarily rejecting the £1.4m bonus awarded to him as a "golden hello .But what strikes me as bizarre is Mr Hester's "tin-ear" to the situation.
History provides precious few examples of a society voluntarily rejecting the application of a powerful new technology- e.g., China burning its navy in the fifteenth century; Japan banning guns in the seventeenth.
Although they read into the record the disappointment expressed by some Russian intellectuals, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (who "writhed with shame for him") at his contrite letter "voluntarily" rejecting the Novel Prize, Finn and Couvée suggest that many of Pasternak's contemporaries agreed that he had had no viable alternative, short of martyrdom.
While the United States does not have strict labeling thresholds for adventitious presence of the Bt trait in seed, seed companies sometimes voluntarily reject seed lots with adventitious presence of transgenes.
Inauguration Day was moved up from March 4 to Jan . 20to reduce, though hardly eliminate, the lame-duck period in which an administration either ending voluntarily or rejected by voters continued in power.
For a Norwegian, talking about "my Europe" feels odd and ill-deserved since we rejected it, voluntarily, twice.
Initially, 970 children accepted to participate voluntarily but 267 were rejected during the study because they either gave fewer than 3 faecal samples (23%), had contaminated faecal samples (4%), or decided not to participate (20%).
Second, he adopts an account of self-mastery which is incompatible with the existence of any legitimate obligations to others, even those which an individual has voluntarily undertaken (thereby rejecting perhaps the most familiar way of reconciling individual autonomy with the existence of binding obligations).
Ceredigion councillors have rejected any moves to voluntarily merge with the neighbouring Pembrokeshire authority.
