Sentence examples for refusal to adapt from inspiring English sources

The government's refusal to adapt and adjust, which was already visible during the monarch's later years, culminated in the Prussian collapse of 1806 before the armies of Napoleon.

Although it is the largest handset maker in the world — with 39percentt of the global market of 1.1 billion phones — Nokia has languished in the American market, hurt by its refusal to adapt its strategy to the market's idiosyncrasies.

Today, the church's refusal to adapt to modern life — on the use of condoms, on family planning, on gay rights — often looks like no more than the orthodoxy of a stubborn pope convinced of a monopoly on truth at the very moment when his church appears shot through with dissimulation.

Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.

Much of the reasoning behind Nokia's fall from grace has to do with "its refusal to adapt its strategy to the market's idiosyncrasies," a claim that Nokia agrees with.

Although a refusal to adapt stands to shutter Wiseheart's way of life, too, the senior seems reluctant to change her views.

It's our small-minded refusal to examine models of care from around the world and adapt them to American circumstances that prevents us from solving our health care crisis.

The reasons for not sending their children to school included a lack of financial resources, minority status, language difficulties of the children, and refusal of the children to adapt to the 'new' school system.

This refusal of the hearing world to adapt to deafness is something Tina feels strongly about.

Refusal to experiment, recalculate, adapt, compromise; that was exactly the politics-as-usual Wilson promised to reject.

She had seized up like a rusted hinge, immovable in her refusal to accept and adapt to her life's upheaval.