Hamas apparently did not envision a full scale confrontation with Israel when it refused to renew a six month truce.

I think he's making a big mistake by turning down the job.

Policymakers must periodically reassess their efforts and promptly abandon failures.

And I, in turn, began enforcing my role as a rebel refusing to succumb to family pressure.

It should be possible for each side to respect the other s position without abandoning its own

That would mean 3,000 micro states, each refusing to accept any sovereignty superior to its own. Of course, this would be a recipe for global anarchy.

Greece s voters were right to demand a change in course, and their government is right to refuse to sign on to a deeply flawed program.

In fact, more than 500 protesters stood their ground against authorities by refusing to leave a sit in in early July and were arrested for it.

Narendra Modi, you murder the victims of the Orlando shooting a second time by refusing to acknowledge that they were killed because they were LGBT.

Refusing to remain silent while denied opportunity, young people particularly girls have launched one of the great civil rights struggles of our time.

Over the next two decades, the state increasingly impeded Harvard s functioning by, for example, refusing to release funds and obstructing the appointment of professors.

The US Treasury Department wasted valuable time in 2008 by not using the funds provided by Congress to deal with those housing market problems.

For instance, even after the blockade was dismantled, a police squad continued to defend a corridor within a building, refusing to let protesters pass.

And so they ve continued, without renouncing to their own convictions, most of them alive and with a will for life.

It should be possible for each side to respect the other s position without abandoning its ownand to find common ground.

In doing this they seek to crash through the gates of fortress Europe, refusing to be imprisoned by its narrow assumptions of national or European identity.

Now, the United States Treasury is headed for a mistake of historic and catastrophic proportions by refusing to bail out America s Big Three automakers.

Anyway he thought he'd better do it, because I never met him before and he might lose face if he hadn't done the thing I sent him.

And there is no easy answer, because Hamas will gain status through negotiations while maintaining its position to destroy Israel.

Where the intelligentsia is not directly complicit, its members have, simply by remaining silent, refused to accept the responsibility that accompanies freedom.

So, can the SGP be made to work in favor, rather than against, structural reforms, without abandoning the rules based approach of the SGP?

They are spreading the news that, for the first time in history, people can quit smoking without giving up the pleasure they derive from nicotine.

He stuck to this position throughout his electoral campaign, refusing the demands of hard line Palestinian factions that he apologize for his previous statements.

It treated the UN Security Council with disdain in its rush to war in Iraq, invoking justifications that have not stood up to scrutiny. Since then, it has continued to insist that its arguments for invading Iraq are beyond criticism, while making a mess of the postwar administration by refusing to share authority.

Instead, Chen balked at further integration into the global economy, refusing to open all of Taiwan s economic sectors to foreign participation, which would have strengthened Taiwan s competitiveness and efficiency. For years, forward looking Taiwanese industrialists, including many hi tech entrepreneurs, urged Chen to de bureaucratize and de politicize Taiwan s increasingly isolated economy.

Since then, it has continued to insist that its arguments for invading Iraq are beyond criticism, while making a mess of the postwar administration by refusing to share authority.

The Hong Kong government could call for changes to increase the openness and fairness by which the Chief Executive is chosen, without abandoning its current method in favor of universal suffrage.

Instead, Chen balked at further integration into the global economy, refusing to open all of Taiwan s economic sectors to foreign participation, which would have strengthened Taiwan s competitiveness and efficiency.

Russia, while never renouncing its imperial dreams and instruments of domination, was nonetheless coming to terms with the inevitability of democracy, at least on its margins.

In refusing to cut its own production, Saudi Arabia seems to be hoping that low oil prices will drive down investment in US shale energy, undermining production growth there.

Tanya, affected first by pity for Grisha and then by the consciousness of her own virtuous action, also had tears in her eyes, but did not decline to eat her share of the pudding.

The first obstacle indeed, the issue that stands front and center today is the ongoing Palestinian civil war, with Hamas controlling the Gaza Strip in defiance of Abu Mazen s Fatah led Palestinian Authority.

China continues its military build up, and North Korea remorselessly pursues nuclear weapons while refusing to resolve or even explain its abduction of dozens of Japanese citizens over the years.

In dismissing such a recount, Frazer told Kenyans that they shouldn t expect their vote to be tallied accurately, and that power can be seized or perhaps even negotiated in a backroom.

But the junta engages in Orwellian doublethink. It has rejected the reports, instead launching its own investigations whose conduct and staffing leave no room for confidence in their credibility.

The Greek Cypriot community can justly be proud of the way they handled the humanitarian and social problems of the refugees, without at any point surrendering their claims to the lands they lost.

For her, it was simply the day that she lost her papa the day that, according to her mother, she started hiding under tables more frequently, withdrawing into herself and largely ceasing to speak.

But America regarded Haiti as a threat rather than as a colleague in freedom, refusing to extend diplomatic recognition until after the outbreak of the Civil War, which finally brought an end to slavery in the US.

These leaders would do better to look across the Mediterranean at Cyprus and see how without giving up claims to disputed land refugees can live in dignity and honor.

He demonstrated pragmatism by not vetoing ongoing EU accession negotiations with Turkey, thus avoiding unnecessary confrontation with Great Britain and Spain, despite maintaining his long term opposition to full membership for Turkey.

There is hope that the Congress and the new administration will now address that issue.

But his plan, which subordinates the human rights of asylum seekers and migrants to the security of borders, threatens to divide and destroy the EU by renouncing the values on which it was built and violating the laws that are supposed to govern it.

In China s view, the US has increasingly been encroaching on its rights with regard to Taiwan, while refusing to recognize China s many other territorial and maritime claims against US allies in the South China Sea.