Sentence examples for could not shirk from inspiring English sources

Wildfoods is essentially one giant game of dare, and after coming all that way, we could not shirk the challenge.

Himmler loved to talk of his "decency," and would later complain that the task of eliminating Jews and other undesirables was a burden, a heroic, if unpalatable, task that he could not shirk.

But Adam Segal, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and an expert on the intersection of technology and domestic security in China, said American companies could not shirk responsibility for the way their technology is used, especially in the wake of recent controversies over the sales of Western Internet filtering systems to autocratic rulers in the Arab world.

They should not shirk it.

Chuck Hagel does not shirk a fight.

They will not shirk their responsibilities.

But he does not shirk theoretical issues.

That is our calling, and we do not shirk it.

France said it "would not shirk its responsibilities".

"But this is a battle people will not shirk from.

And as long as I am mayor, we will not shirk from it".