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But every senior military officer also takes an oath to defend the Constitution, and pledges to refuse illegal, unconstitutional or criminal directives.

If they refused, Buck would sometimes refuse to pay them.

“You have to wonder what signal this sends when the Bahraini authorities are unjustly prosecuting their critics, when human rights defenders are languishing in Bahraini jails and when the Manama authorities refuse to reinstate the citizenship of people rendered stateless on politically motivated charges,” said Allan Hogarth, Amnesty International UK’s head of government and political relations.

Initially, some landlords might refuse to pay brokers, instead opting to handle the entire leasing process on their own.

Brokers say getting rid of broker fees will actually lead to higher rents because landlords will refuse to pay brokers and instead include them in the rent — say, upping the rent by $400 a month, to spread out a $5,000 fee over a 12-month lease.