Sentence examples for we refuse to take from inspiring English sources

"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically".

"As a community and as individuals, we cannot do our best work if we refuse to take ownership of such a critical part of our history,'' he said.

"We refuse to take a step back," says Mugisha, matter-of-factly, "but we know that now, we could easily be arrested".

Browsing around, I found a fancy copy of "Lady Chatterley's Lover," and I couldn't stop reading its opening line: "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically".

"If we refuse to take into account the full cost of our fossil fuel addiction — if we don't factor in the environmental costs and national security costs and true economic costs — we will have missed our best chance to seize a clean energy future," Mr. Obama said.

It goes like this: 'Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.' The funny thing about this is that nobody (correct me if I'm wrong) has ever accused DH Lawrence of being a barrel of laughs.

"It is like, the FA Cup, they gave it to us on a plate and we refused to take it.

We refused to take part in the system that we mistrusted, even though playing the establishment's game was the only way, outside of bloody revolution, to engage with it.

Media captionLSE director, Professor Judith Rees: "We refused to take any money while he was a student and that is a very very strict policy" That report is not being made public but BBC News understands that it will not recommend that Gaddafi be stripped of his LSE doctorate.

"Editorially, we refused to take sides when it really would've been easier to do so.

On the contrary, the Secret Service offered to pay rent, as is customary in these situations, and we refused to take it.