Sentence examples for refuse to confront from inspiring English sources

It's the same for ever disability, of course, and yet our governments steadfastly refuse to confront this fact.

If the child has committed a terrible crime, the parent may refuse to confront it because that feels like the surest strategy for restoring a stable existence.

"Our elites refuse to confront openly what Serbia did, for fear of being branded as traitors," Brankica Stankovic, one of the country's leading television journalists, said Tuesday.

For people who steadfastly refuse to confront the Middle English, the best recent translations are those of Colin Wilcockson and Nevill Coghill (both Penguin Classics) and David Wright (Oxford World's Classics).

Though bright, capable, and vaguely destined for greatness, they rent a house in their college town, hang out at the same bars, and refuse to confront the future, or much else.

This book consciously eschews the shock tactics so often adopted by Anglo-Saxon historians who write about Vichy, many of whom assume that the French continue to be "frightened of their Vichy past" and refuse to confront it.

But he refused to confront corrupt underlings.

Both groups denied involvement and refused to confront the attackers.

However, the Irish government steadfastly refuses to confront the issue.

There was a harder truth that I refused to confront, though.

"But the UK remains at risk because the government refuses to confront the problem.