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Hesitation in sentence

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The attention devoted to Johannes Steele’s 1934 book The Second World War, which predicted that eponymous event, indicates that fear of war must have been talked about enough to underpin some hesitation.
A mismatch of emotions can cause executive dysfunction, a failure to act, hesitation.
Some kinds of stories circulating today – related to growing nationalism or fear of challenges by immigrants to traditional cultural values – might underpin greater hesitation.
Will these fears fuel enough economic hesitation to bring on another worldwide recession?
But his vague language reflected a larger hesitation that will probably persist until the crisis is over.
This uncertainty may partly explain America’s hesitation to make any definitive policy decisions regarding Egypt.
To be sure, after some hesitation, Trump did affirm his commitment to NATO’s mutual-defense clause last year.
His character and track record – both undoubtedly complex – remind us that heroism is compatible with imperfection, that presence of mind is compatible with contradiction, and that courage is compatible with hesitation.
The single largest bilateral creditor, China, is now on board, after some initial hesitation.
The costs of an ambitious response are puny compared to those incurred as a result of hesitation or errors.
The Fed should flag these undesirable consequences without hesitation.
Trump apparently agreed to that with little hesitation.
In July 2009, Obama declared his support for the policy, after some earlier hesitation, and made it the linchpin of what later became known as Obamacare.
The proof that they knew surely what death was, lay in the fact that they knew without a minute's hesitation how to behave with the dying and did not fear them.
He now felt a similar sense of shame and remorse when thinking of his whole past with her, and recalling the awkward words in which, after much hesitation, he had proposed to her.'But wherein am I to blame?' he asked himself, and as usual that question suggested another: Did those others – those Vronskys and Oblonskys and those fat-calved chamberlains – feel differently, love differently, marry differently?
No!No!' she now answered herself without the least hesitation.
But after some hesitation he gave his permission, reserving its ratification for Monsieur Négrel, the engineer.
He again felt hesitation, a discomfort which made him regret the freedom of the open road, the hunger beneath the sun, endured with the joy of being one's own master.
Suddenly M. Hennebeau recollected the lunch; and he was about to send the coachman to tell the Grégoires that the party had been put off, when a certain hesitation and lack of will stopped him--the man who in a few brief phrases had just made military preparations for a field of battle.
So he murmured, with clenched teeth:"And to think that we can't get two sous out of these damned idiots, who are watching us starve!""If I were to take the box?" said the woman, very pale, after some hesitation.
There was some hesitation when Deneulin showed himself at the top of the staircase which led to the receiving-room.
and the forked turnings were passed without any hesitation.
Without hesitation, I identified his dominant qualities-- self-confidence, since his head reared like a nobleman's above the arc formed by the lines of his shoulders, and his black eyes gazed with icy assurance; calmness, since his skin, pale rather than ruddy, indicated tranquility of blood; energy, shown by the swiftly knitting muscles of his brow; and finally courage, since his deep breathing denoted tremendous reserves of vitality.
This question baffled me, since Commander Farragut would certainly have shown no such hesitation.
"Not at all, professor," the captain answered me after a slight hesitation, "since you'll never leave this underwater boat.
Captain Nemo resumed the lead in our little band, always heading forward without hesitation.
Besides, I'm not a Negro, and even if I were a Negro, in this instance I don't think a little hesitation on my part would be out of place."
In the midst of the stone mazes furrowing this Atlantic seafloor, Captain Nemo moved forward without hesitation.
"A thousand years," the Canadian replied without hesitation.
"Yes, sir," the captain replied, "and if I have no hesitation in treading this polar soil, it's because no human being until now has left a footprint here."
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