Sentence examples for refusing to confront from inspiring English sources

The officials also said that the Bush Administration, like the Clinton Administration, is refusing to confront this reality, even in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks.

Like the apocryphal sign at a tea-party rally last year, warning government to keep its "hands off my Medicare", they are refusing to confront reality.Nor is it just spineless politicians who are at fault.

In my opinion, these youngsters are afraid to grow up, and so they are essentially going on strike, refusing to confront the challenges of adulthood and thereby avoiding the risk of failure.

But he has tarnished his presidency by crudely smearing his political opponents, declining to speak out clearly against violent political intimidation in neighboring Zimbabwe, and irresponsibly refusing to confront his country's catastrophic AIDS epidemic.

By refusing to confront them directly, the government largely averted violence and avoided giving the army a pretext to intervene on Mr Suthep's behalf to "save" the country, democracy or anything else.Some have suggested that the two sides may now sit down together to negotiate a way out of the impasse.

Muskie ran an overly cautious campaign, refusing to confront hard issues.

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.