Reluctance
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292 examples of Reluctance in a sentence
In both cases, what we are seeing is a
reluctance
to give North Korea a test that it might fail.
At the same time, the “maximum pressure” campaign has effectively ended, with calls to relax sanctions and a
reluctance
to enforce fully those on the books.
This
reluctance
to press North Korea, however, points to the danger that Kim’s regime will be allowed not just to keep but to increase its nuclear arsenal.
market should act given the fact that participation in the euro and political union was probably the principal motive for the Denmark’s “No” to euro membership and Britain’s
reluctance.
A
reluctance
to prosecute war criminals is an asset that Balkan governments use in order to pacify their nationalist audience and, indeed, to avoid the thorny problems of a thoroughgoing reform.
The balance-of-payments crisis of 1966-7 reflected the tendency of British wages to grow faster than productivity, the consequent trade deficits, and foreign investors’
reluctance
to finance a position they saw as unsustainable.
The continuing optimism of Fed forecasts, and the
reluctance
to force banks to shore up their capital – often clothed in too-big-to-fail-rhetoric – amounted to serious policy failures.
Its
reluctance
is understandable, because voters are evenly divided on the issue, and no one will invest a cent in Mexican oil or gas if the recently approved constitutional amendment on Pemex can be overturned in 2015, as the opposition claims will happen.
There is also America’s understandable
reluctance
to become involved in yet another war in an Islamic country, as well as the impossibility of knowing what kind of regime might emerge if and when Assad is overthrown.
I agree with Chua to this extent: a
reluctance
to tell a child what to do can go too far.
That presents the West with a dilemma: Given its
reluctance
to commit its own ground forces to a war it knows it must win, it will have to arm the Kurds – not just the Kurdish Peshmerga militia of northern Iraq, but also other Kurdish groups – with more advanced weaponry.
This further contributes to the
reluctance
of foreign companies to invest in malaria-ridden regions, despite otherwise low labor costs.
It was Greenspan’s notorious
reluctance
to intervene in financial markets, even when leverage was growing dramatically and asset prices seemed to have lost touch with reality, that created the problem.
French
reluctance
to subject its nuclear plants to European regulation determined by its nuclear-skeptical neighbors is comparable to British efforts to prevent major European harmonization of financial-market rules, owing to the importance of its financial sector.
The government’s
reluctance
to use such a process might have been motivated by AIG’s major role in insurance markets around the world.
We need to get over our
reluctance
to speak openly about the good we do.
Back then, against a backdrop of government
reluctance
to force debt write-downs, along with massively over-valued real housing prices and excessive real wages in some sectors, moderate inflation would have been extremely helpful.
Many of the agitators’ bugbears are indeed worthy of criticism: the European Union’s opacity, the duplicitousness and greed of Wall Street bankers, the
reluctance
to tackle problems caused by mass immigration, the lack of concern for those hurt by economic globalization.
And, indeed, a
reluctance
to cooperate was on display at last month’s meeting of the EU’s Justice and Home Affairs Council, where representatives failed to produce an arrangement on how to distribute the paltry 40,000 refugees that the European Council agreed to accept in June.
China’s Narrowing Policy HorizonsBEIJING – Back in the last quarter of 2011, when the decline in China’s investment growth accelerated, concerns about a hard economic landing intensified, particularly given the authorities’
reluctance
to pursue new expansionary policies.
Adding $1.5 trillion more to the federal debt will create an understandable
reluctance
to respond to a downturn with further tax cuts.
Even after a government in Germany is finally formed, policymakers there will continue to display their characteristic
reluctance
to use fiscal policy.
There may be a
reluctance
to contemplate this, but there is no choice if Europe is to have a hope of solving the problem.
Such
reluctance
is understandable, for the choice is almost like being forced to choose death over life.
There is also a general
reluctance
to report unfavorable drug effects.
If the Europeans back away from the costs of victory, they will give dramatic proof of their
reluctance
to develop a European CFSP: the systemic obstacles coupled with cowardice will have proved stronger than the éngrenage.
This wholesale return to the industrial policies of yesteryear, and governments’
reluctance
to let even uncompetitive companies fail, should be cause for widespread concern.
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that part of the motivation for this was French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s
reluctance
to see Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF’s managing director, ride in from Washington to the rescue of the eurozone.
Personal transparency and accountability, on the other hand, are harder, owing both to a lack of visibility and to people’s
reluctance
to confront one another – or themselves.
The arms race that preceded World War I was accompanied by exactly the same mixture of military
reluctance
and eagerness to experiment with the power of markets.
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