Sentence examples for refusal to come from inspiring English sources

They also testify to a refusal to come to terms with the PP's defeat last March.

In all her novels, Frame depicted a society deprived of wholeness by its refusal to come to terms with disorder, irrationality, and madness.

Mr. Yang's appeal to tradition can also justify a nostalgia that verges on sentiment, and a refusal to come to terms with the present.

This led to more confrontations but it was the violence in the tunnel and the dressing room that prompted Tigre's refusal to come back out onto the pitch.

Steven Gordon, the Concord, N.H., lawyer who represented the estate, said the government's defense showed a continued refusal to come clean.

The chancellor's second mistake was his refusal to come clean about what his spending plans would mean for taxes after the next election.

The most flagrant refusal to do so came at the funeral of Rafael Ramos, when hundreds of police officers in attendance, following Lynch's lead, turned their backs as the Mayor delivered a eulogy.

I wondered if Beth's refusal to do PE came from a similar fear, incomprehensible to others.

Bush's refusal to do so has come at an unimaginably high cost, which will include his own legacy.

Henry III decided that Bedford Castle should be returned to its original owner, William de Beauchamp, and became increasingly frustrated with Falkes' refusal to do so; matters came to a head when Falkes' castellans imprisoned Henry of Braybrooke, a royal judge who was hearing law cases against Falkes.

Swift is unlikely to endorse a political candidate, and her refusal to do so will inevitably come across as calculating.