Reluctance
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The government insists on a January 2008 deadline, but the companies complain that the government’s
reluctance
to fund its share of operating costs fully and rising political violence in the Niger Delta make this deadline unrealistic, and want it extended three years.
This theory informs some countries’
reluctance
to commit to the Kyoto Protocol’s second term.
Economic growth since the Orange Revolution reinforces that reluctance, because an expanding middle class nearly always prefers the flexibility of pluralism to the thump of an authoritarian's fist.
In fact, the ECB’s perceived
reluctance
to follow suit is likely to add to the expected growth effects of US or British monetary-policy choices, at the expense of the eurozone.
Given the
reluctance
of underrepresented countries to sign up for the IMF’s precautionary credit lines, central banks desperate for dollars can obtain them only from the Federal Reserve.
The problem in the interwar period, as Kindleberger recounts it, was the
reluctance
of the leading power, the US, to provide the leadership and financial wherewithal to resolve the crisis.
And, for all their reluctance, they may well end up aligned with the US, for two reasons: a hardening of the rivalry with the US would drive the Chinese leadership further from Western values, and they ultimately depend on the US for their own security.
We understand, of course, the
reluctance
to intervene in what is traditionally considered a family matter.
Moreover, the Bush administration combined its policies with an extraordinary
reluctance
to veto anything coming out of Congress, and, after the year or two that it took for this to become obvious, an inability to restrain Congress at all.
During the last Portuguese Presidency (January-June 2000), the EU-Africa Summit had to be cancelled because of a visa ban on Zimbabwean officials and the
reluctance
of Africans to attend if Mugabe was excluded.
Even Russia’s
reluctance
to support concerted Western action, such as in Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990’s, was based on arguments that could be heard in other European countries.
Of course, not everyone beyond the College of Europe’s campus shared this enthusiasm, especially not everyone in Old Europe, which often seemed to be accomplishing its “historical duty” with considerable
reluctance.
Israel’s
reluctance
to rattle its nuclear saber, even in dire circumstances, adds to the mystery.
American
reluctance
to abandon Musharraf – together with prolonged electricity shortages, which made the new government appear incompetent – also raised his hopes.
Wyatt’s
reluctance
to join in the exploitation of great apes is understandable, given that the film itself tells the story of apes rising up in response to oppression from dominant humans.
Given the level of interconnectedness and interdependence that characterizes today’s global economy, the
reluctance
to cooperate is difficult to comprehend.
Even at Japan’s world-beating export firms,
reluctance
to confront the ingrained interests of the old-boy network has made it difficult to prune less profitable product lines – and the workers who make them.
Lands legally recorded as wilderness will encourage more fire; and a
reluctance
to put firefighters at risk in remote settings – as well as cost concerns – argues for backing off and letting the next ridge burn while offering point protection for threatened communities.
Since President Xi Jinping launched his anti-corruption campaign in 2012, China’s overall economic performance has not improved, partly owing to local officials’ increased
reluctance
to take bold steps to boost growth.
Russia has been highlighting the Kyiv government’s
reluctance
to implement the terms of Minsk 2, in order to drive a wedge between Ukraine and Europe.
The cavalier attitude toward facts is compounded by extreme
reluctance
to issue corrections.
Second, there is the
reluctance
of Democratic Party bosses to see ultraconservative Vice President Mike Pence assume the place vacated by a fallen Trump.
More than anything else it stems from international
reluctance
to challenge any government over what it is doing within its own territory.
This implies a ray of hope for a bilateral relationship – the most important in Asia – that over the past two decades has been battered by Japan’s
reluctance
to face its past, which has become a lightning rod for over-heated nationalist sentiment on both sides.
While it assigns responsibility to Japan for WWII, and even unflinchingly names the political and military leaders who bear responsibility, one can still detect a whiff of
reluctance
in its failure to fully describe some of Japan’s war-time actions.
The Turkish government’s
reluctance
to join the United States-led coalition against the Islamic State’s extremist Sunni fighters has isolated it from other Sunni Arab powers, such as Saudi Arabia, that have joined the coalition.
Far from appearing a paragon of political solidarity, however, the German government’s support for Greece was marked by
reluctance
and reprimands, which quickly sparked fears of a member state exiting the eurozone.
Spain, for example, can currently transmit only 1.5% of its electricity-generating capacity to the rest of Europe, owing to a lack of transmission infrastructure in the Pyrenees and France’s
reluctance
to open its energy market to competition from the Iberian Peninsula.
And one can easily understand civil servants’ strong
reluctance
to disregard legal obligations and risk criminal liability for breach of trust.
The Columbia Journalism Review called the article “groundbreaking,” though recent squabbles with CNN indicate a certain
reluctance
to accept BuzzFeed as a legitimate news organization – and, potentially, even the emergence of a new media war.
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