Sentence examples for widespread refusal from inspiring English sources
But this year the framework is defined by a widespread refusal in Washington to accept the obvious.
"At the very least it is offensive," Mr. Griffee said of what he sees as a widespread refusal to acknowledge the troops' pride at achievements in Iraq.
Tacitly on trial beside Mladic in The Hague is a set of ideas: in my view the left's most disturbing case of denial and doublethink since the widespread refusal to accept that Stalin had engineered a famine in the Ukraine.
They must assemble a viable replacement for a law that has expanded health insurance coverage to roughly 20 million Americans and eliminated unpopular insurance industry practices, such as lifetime coverage caps and widespread refusal to cover already-sick individuals.
The Europeans' widespread refusal to enter the CAR comes as an embarrassing disappointment for the French government, whose Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, told the lower house of the French National Assembly earlier this week: "We will soon have troops on the ground provided by our European colleagues".
Children also benefit from learning about violence and brutishness in fairy tales, Bettelheim writes, for it counters the "widespread refusal to let children know that the source of much that goes wrong in our life is due to our natures — the propensity of all men for acting aggressively, asocially, selfishly".
"Letters of fire and sword," authorizing savage attacks upon recalcitrants, were drawn up in anticipation of widespread refusals; the chiefs, however, took the oath.
In the Netherlands, the census had to be abandoned 20 years ago because of widespread public refusal to participate.
In the Finger Lakes region, a town clerk who has received widespread attention for her refusal to sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples won re-election.
The widespread fraud and the refusal of huge numbers of Pashtuns to head to the polls, however, shows that the strategy failed.
Without brushing aside the need to address safety concerns, the increasing rates of HPV vaccine refusal suggest that widespread vaccination will require more than marketing campaigns.
