Sentence examples for refusal to risk from inspiring English sources

It requires prudence: simplicity, honesty, thrift, the deferral of gratification, industry, a refusal to risk fortune and tranquillity "in quest of new enterprises and adventures".

The interminable discussions about the campaign to secure Hindley's freedom were always wrecked on an immovable obstacle: successive Labour and Conservative home secretaries' refusal to risk the wrath of Middle England and recommend parole.

Its support base may only be tens of thousands in a country of 64m people but, unchecked, that is enough to wreak havoc.The security forces' reluctance to apply the law may reflect a sensible refusal to risk bloodshed.

For centuries, scholars have debated whether the Viking colonies were wiped out by marauding native peoples, by plagues from Europe, by inbreeding, by economic impoverishment wrought by bishops sent from Rome or by abandonment by Scandinavian merchants' refusal to risk their ships in Greenland's increasingly iceberg-infested waters.

But, by advertising the sophistication of its weapons, NATO has also raised the standard by which it must be judged, at least in legal terms.Its refusal to risk any casualties on its own side by avoiding lower-level (and thus more accurate) bombing raids—has led, by its own admission, to civilian casualties.

And so Israel falls ever deeper into the dangerous abyss between his refusal to risk his right-wing power base, and his readiness to say anything to retain it.

But you could also read the ending as a defeat — Marina's falling back on that characteristic working-class gesture of refusal, choosing not to risk getting above herself, not to incur the disapproval of the community.

But you could also read the ending as a defeat Marina's falling back on that characteristic working-class gesture of refusal, choosing not to risk getting above herself, not to incur the disapproval of the community.

Safety climate can be described as the shared perceptions of members in a social unit of safety-related policies and practices; for example, communication between peers relating to safety, commitment to and the priority of safety issues, the refusal to accept risk, and the ability of management to manage and prioritise safety [ 21].

This refusal to lead risks the creation of a confusing and patchwork set of standards that hurts the environment and the auto industry.

Lord O'Donnell, who was the UK's most senior civil servant until he retired last year, also gave a strong defence at an information tribunal that week of the government's refusal to publish a risk assessment of its controversial NHS overhaul.