Sentence examples for refusal to confront from inspiring English sources

Also, some members of the organization felt that Casey's refusal to confront players hurt the team.

More than any of Chekhov's plays, "The Cherry Orchard" is propelled by people's refusal to confront the inevitable.

In other books and plays, though, she focused her criticism on Austria and its refusal to confront its Nazi past.

"The two-state solution died long ago, with Israel's refusal to confront the settlement movement," said Palestinian analyst Diana Butto.

For months, senior Republican lawmakers have been hammering Mr. Obama for what they have said is his refusal to confront the country's mounting debt and entitlement crisis.

But it is Nicola's terrible, smiling refusal to confront what is happening that most appals and exhausts those who have rallied to care for her.

But he refused to confront corrupt underlings.

However, its refusal to properly confront and embrace its pain perpetuates its issues.

And, we seem to have absorbed valuable lessons about the dangers and destructiveness of ideological crusades and a refusal to meaningfully confront long-standing problems.

Their refusal so far to confront sweeping structural change reads as if they agree with the notion that the French perceive almost any change in the system as a threat because virtually everyone's self-interest is wired to a state-protected status quo.

It suggests there is not a "squeezed bottom" and is another refusal by the lukewarm left to confront structures of inequality, in a way that would respect the traditions of generations of progressive thinkers.