Sentence examples for refuse to adjust from inspiring English sources

Some relationships aren't so friendly, and roasters who refuse to adjust their contracts in rising markets might find themselves confronted by shortfalls come harvesttime.

Unenlightened people refuse to adjust their words or their actions in order not to give offense; vindictive ones seek out the company of unenlightened people in order to be offended at their lack of enlightenment.

If the party doesn't adapt, the alternative is that its power centers — the Christian right, anti-immigration forces, and proponents of policies that benefit the affluent at the expense of the less well-off — will refuse to adjust, in which case the party risks going the way of the Studebaker.

While Bettelheim tells us that fairy tales help us adjust, Jack Zipes has said the opposite: that the value of fairy tales is that they teach us not to adjust, because the oppressive society in which we live is something we should refuse to adjust to.

[cartoon id= a16466"] While Bettelheim tells us that fairy tales help us adjust, Jack Zipes has said the opposite: that the value of fairy tales is that they teach us not to adjust, because the oppressive society in which we live is something we should refuse to adjust to.

Talk to any college teacher and you will hear bemused accounts of encounters with students who think that the teacher's criticisms of their work are "just your opinion," no more valid than the student's opinion, as well as stories of students who make serious trouble for teachers who refuse to adjust their grades.

But, he said, alarm owners frequently refused to adjust their alarm systems to reduce their sensitivity.

Hem, however, refuses to adjust to his new circumstances and is left behind.

He announced a rise in the inheritance tax threshold without mentioning that he had previously refused to adjust it.

While my eyes refused to adjust to the blackness, I could hear thousands — O.K., dozens — of little bat bodies shifting in slumber inches above my head.

Buhari's dogged character – a selling point in his presidential campaign - is now proving an impediment regarding the economy as he stubbornly refuses to adjust his policies to reality.