turn one's back on

Example Sentences

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

From Reuters

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.”

From Seattle Times

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.

From New York Times

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

From Washington Post

To say that it is the voters who should decide is to turn one's back on the great mainstay of American governance which is a complex system of checks and balances which has largely protected the nation from radical or extremist populism in leadership.

From New York Times