Sentence examples for refusing to anticipate from inspiring English sources

She embarked on this, she says, because she saw a conspiracy of silence about old age, as though all were in denial, refusing to anticipate their own future, and, in consequence, choosing to ignore the situation of the old.

The real dangers are, of course, the ones we can't (or refuse to) anticipate.

For instance, the colleges refuse to allow anticipated earnings to form part of the financial guarantee.

He anticipated the anti-Vietnam war movement of the 1960s by refusing to join the armed forces.

Refusing to be just another ink-stained wretch, $2.4 billion (sales) E.W. Scripps has made a fortuitous habit of anticipating trends in media and information.

"Mike is a kid who refuses to do what's anticipated," Melvin White said.

France "did not anticipate and refused to make this choice — but this doesn't date from today but from 5 or 10 years ago.

But investigators were dismayed that in their investigation of a rupture of a gasoline pipeline in Bellingham, Wash., in June, officials of the pipeline company, apparently anticipating indictments, refused to let safety board investigators meet with company personnel.

I'm quite sure you have your own list of "mistakes" made, anticipate making, or refuse to admit you've made, in your trail of gay relationships.

Mr. Basu said that the recent economic slowdown in India was "sharper than what I had anticipated," and he refused to criticize the Reserve Bank of India after it announced Monday that it was keeping interest rates steady.

Despite fully anticipating his death, Riou refused to leave his ship, and he and a few others were left to attempt the nearly impossible task of navigating the sinking ship several hundred leagues to land.