Sentence examples for refuse to adapt from inspiring English sources

This is also important for clearing out the middle managers who refuse to adapt.

This debate is being fueled by big-name players who refuse to adapt and by equipment manufacturers who are behind the curve.

"Companies that refuse to adapt the technology with which they use to communicate are looking increasingly unappealing from a recruitment point of view.

Not even great power guarantors can assure indefinite survival to feudal monarchies if they stubbornly refuse to adapt to more democratic times.

But if you want to persuade people, or simply communicate clearly, the last thing you should do is say the same thing to everyone and refuse to adapt to circumstances.

People who "refuse to adapt, and criticise our values" should "behave normally, or go away", Rutte said in a full-page newspaper message seen as a bid to win over voters drawn to Geert Wilders' anti-immigration, anti-Muslim Freedom (PVV) party.

But refusing to adapt is also fraught with risks.

It is easy to leap to the assumption that Mr. Perrier is part of an old guard of fusty, white-tablecloth, haute cuisine emperors who refused to adapt to changing tastes, but that's not the case.

The accommodating tone is in contrast to the caricature of D'Antoni that has emerged over the years — as a stubborn, all-offense, no-defense, small-ball coach who refused to adapt to personnel.

Unlike many of his fellow writers who emigrated to Hollywood and snobbishly refused to adapt to the film medium, Huxley became a successful screenwriter, with credits for Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre.

In a television interview, the Spanish foreign minister, Josep Piqué, criticized the Argentine unions for asking investors "to keep plowing in money indefinitely" while they refused to adapt to new market conditions.