The first George W. Bush administration was probably right to refuse to sign the so called Kyoto Protocol, albeit for the wrong reasons.

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The Kyoto Protocol was a major achievement, yet it left out 75 of the sources of emissions the US, the largest polluter, refused to sign.

The United States has proved to be the biggest laggard in the world, refusing to sign the 1997 Kyoto Protocol or to adopt any effective domestic emissions controls.

Although possessing these weapons of mass destruction is technically not illegal, most states are parties to the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, which Syria has refused to sign.

She refused to accept the money.

She turned down his proposal.

She refused my offer to help her.

She turned down my request.

She turned down my proposal.

She turned down his invitation.

She refused his offer.

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Why did you turn down his offer?

It was for the individual parties to check with the signatory whether a signature had been appended, and the signature derived its legal effect from the proven link between the signature and the signatory.

Betty turned down Muriel's offer.

The court does refuses their demands.

Yet the United States has refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol, which does little to change the long term course of events on the planet, since it calls for only small steps up to the year 2012.

Compliance with a requirement for a signature

The present Convention shall be open for signature by all States and by regional integration organizations at United Nations Headquarters in New York as of 30 March 2007.

Final provision, signature

(Signed) John Dauth

Opening for signature

Definition of electronic signature

Signature thumbprint of applicant

(Signed) Ruth Wedgwood

(Signed) L. SKOTNIKOV Ambassador Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the Conference on Disarmament

(Signed) Gunter Pleuger

(c) Any alteration to the electronic signature, made after the time of signing, is detectable and

The victim declined to press charges.

(b) The signature creation data were, at the time of signing, under the control of the signatory and of no other person

3. Recommends that the Convention be opened for signature at a signing ceremony in Paris.

Nothing in this Law, except article 5, shall be applied so as to exclude, restrict or deprive of legal effect any method of creating an electronic signature that satisfies the requirements referred to in article 6, paragraph 1, or otherwise meets the requirements of applicable law.

But would signing it make a difference?

Delegation of financial signing authority

Signature, ratification, acceptance and approval

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Signing, ratification and or accession to the Covenant

But an infuriated public would have none of it.

The company refused to consider selling Buell.

But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

Australia is reported as having refused to do so.

(d) Where a purpose of the legal requirement for a signature is to provide assurance as to the integrity of the information to which it relates, any alteration made to that information after the time of signing is detectable.