Sentence examples for stark refusal from inspiring English sources

There's no synthetic argumentation, just a stark refusal to do justice to the balance of light and dark that is present in the opera.

This was in stark contrast to his refusal little more than a year ago to yield an inch on his citywide smoking ban, which infuriated bar and restaurant owners.

The Government's invocation of European cooperation is in stark contrast to its refusal to accept EU migration quotas to spread the burden of the crisis from southern states.

Delay to diagnosis, lag time prior to treatment initiation, and abandonment of treatment including upfront treatment refusal, represent stark causes of high retinoblastoma mortality rates in low- and middle- income settings, particularly regions in Africa.

Their demands for documents and other material from Channel 4 are in stark contrast to the police refusal to disclose any documents at all in the case brought by the eight women".

That refusal stands in stark contrast to the path CBS took in the wake of its 2004 story about questions surrounding President's George W. Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.

Their "refusal to accept the stark reality that race matters is regrettable," Sotomayor wrote.

"[The] refusal to accept the stark reality that race matters is regrettable.

But how long can this soft-shoe shuffle, the refusal to accept some stark truths about drugs, carry on if drug use keeps rising?

High up in the alpine wilderness, they say, a crisis is unfolding -- the denial of which is a stark example of the government's refusal to take the effects of climate change seriously.

Bradley said his primary roadblock to redemption had been — in stark contrast to Hamilton's approach — his refusal to kowtow to the news media for something as relatively benign as a wicked temper.