refusal — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ absolute, adamant, blank (BrE), blunt, complete, flat, outright, point blank, utter ▪ the panel … Collocations dictionary
Treatment Advocacy Center — The Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC) is a United States nonprofit organization founded in 1998 by schizophrenia researcher E. Fuller Torrey and was originally part of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). TAC s focus is on promoting laws … Wikipedia
Treatment Action Campaign — to begin making antiretroviral drugs available to South Africans. [http://www.fingaz.co.zw/story.aspx?stid=823 Mbeki: Self sabotage led to downfall ] Mavis Makuni, Financial Gazette, 27 September 2008. Accessed 30 September 2008.] FoundingThe… … Wikipedia
Treatment of Christians in Communist Bloc countries — Before and after the October Revolution of November 7, 1917 (October 25 Old Calendar) there was a movement within the Soviet Union to unite all of the people of the world under Communist rule (see Communist International). This included the… … Wikipedia
Informed refusal — is a medico legal concept whereby a person can be said to have given refusal to an intervention based upon an understanding of the facts and of the implications of not following a recommended diagnostic or therapeutic action.cite web|… … Wikipedia
school refusal — (skool ruh.FYOOZ.uhl) n. An extreme fear of attending school. Example Citations: But now with child psychologists, school refusal has actually been coined as a medical term. The definition is what you would expect: the child is unreasonably… … New words
Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act — The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (usc|42|1395dd, EMTALA) is a United States Act of Congress passed in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. It requires hospitals and ambulance services to provide… … Wikipedia
silent treatment — noun an aloof refusal to speak to someone you know • Hypernyms: ↑rebuff, ↑slight * * * noun : an act of completely ignoring a person or thing by resort to silence especially as a means of expressing contempt or disapproval too often, the most… … Useful english dictionary
the silent treatment — a stubborn refusal to talk to someone, esp. after a recent argument or disagreement * * * the silent treatment : the act of ignoring someone because you are angry at him or her I told him that I thought he was crazy and got the silent treatment… … Useful english dictionary
United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… … Universalium
United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… … Universalium