turn one's back on

"This is not a moment to turn one's back on difficulties, but to confront difficulties, so I am not quitting," Costa told parliament.

To preach sober sex for all, all the time, would be to deliberately turn one’s back on the reality that people like to get messed up and screw.

Francois Delattre said that 25 years after the Oslo Accords started the peace process, “there might be a temptation to turn one’s back on the agreed framework.”

Some moments of the film posed a challenge; Moana raging at the ocean, for example, contravened a Maori cultural rule to never curse or turn one’s back on the sea, so they turned it into a more humorous moment using careful wordplay.

For any person of science or faith, it should be impossible to turn one’s back on a tormented soul.