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Others, meanwhile, have reluctantly acknowledged their countries’ duty to accept refugees, but then declare that all economic migrants must leave.
China has engaged only very reluctantly in the global effort to bring down overall emissions.
This is why, whether reluctantly or enthusiastically, public enterprises are for sale, even if unions strike.
European governments are only now reluctantly accepting the need to scale back their over-representation in multilateral bodies, recognizing that it undermines rather than enhances the EU’s overall influence by pushing other powers into separate arrangements.
After contesting every election since 2000, Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has changed tactics reluctantly.
Even the supremacy of European law in defined areas was accepted only reluctantly by Britain, and long after many others had done so.
Obaidullah’s capture – carried out reluctantly – underscores the Pakistan military’s ambiguous relationship with the Taliban.
Reluctantly, Samuelson concluded that there needed to be permanent controls over prices and wages to stop cost-push inflation.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reluctantly acknowledged austerity’s failure when he announced on June 1 that his government would postpone a planned increase in the country’s consumption tax.
True, the defense against missiles which Bill Clinton (reluctantly) and George W. Bush (enthusiastically) are proposing – with massive support from America’s Congress – is different from Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars dream of twenty years ago: NMD is supposed to catch only a modest number of warheads, not provide complete protection against enemy missiles.
Countries like South Korea and Japan, for example, have curtailed their imports of Iranian oil only reluctantly; countries like China and Russia rarely play straight on sanctions in the first place.
Given the recent memory of the violent French Revolution, the British elite reluctantly agreed to democratizing reforms.
Indeed, central banks’ assumption of additional responsibilities has been motivated less by a desire for greater power than by a sense of moral obligation, and most central bankers are only reluctantly embracing their new role and visibility.
However reluctantly, these companies have called on all of us to reject their products.
After all, the vast majority of migrants leave home reluctantly.
In initiatives of this sort, agreement is obtained reluctantly and pressure could provoke harsh responses.
Personally, I am reluctantly willing to accept the US government spying on people, especially foreigners, as long as it is constrained by rules that are public and enforced.
It is now the Israeli left that, however reluctantly, realizes that Sharon’s new pragmatism may be the first step in the right direction.
I would guess that most prostitutes have chosen their work reluctantly, under pressure of need, not involuntarily.
The Germans had reluctantly agreed, at the April 2009 G20 summit in London, that the US, China, and other major countries would expand demand to help pull the world out of recession.
The New Middle East OrderSometime this month, President George W. Bush will – reluctantly – announce a new policy for the United States in Iraq.
In that sense, it stands in stark contrast to Trump’s subsequent performance at the G20 summit, which he seemed to be attending only reluctantly – and where world leaders treated him accordingly.
Of course, the Germans have reluctantly come to accept the necessity of a banking union that includes common deposit insurance.
When a Swiss contractor obediently (if reluctantly) suspended its work in response to the sanctions, the Germans immediately suggested that they would find another way to complete the work as soon as possible.
Long before the American Revolution, as the French philosopher Montesquieu conceded (perhaps reluctantly), Britain had pioneered the modern idea of liberty.
Envisaging a situation in which there would not be enough ventilators for all patients needing one, a working group of the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation, and Intensive Care reluctantly supported rationing by age, while also taking into account frailty and the severity of any other health problems.
It is true that some aspects of the global agreement on Basel III, reached – reluctantly in the case of France and Germany – at the end of 2017, weigh more heavily on European banks than on their US peers.
The Fund agreed – albeit reluctantly – to top up the loan with an additional $7 billion, bringing it to $57 billion.
They were convinced that once the fork was reached, their successors would bow to the inevitable and steer, however reluctantly, toward federation.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump, once considered a formidable candidate for re-election thanks to an apparently strong economy and high stock market, is now facing an economic collapse, owing to the COVID 19 pandemic (which Trump reluctantly admitted).
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