He is the reluctant hero forced to deal with the forces of coincidence and fate. |
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But investors are reluctant to take on long-term risk given the uncertainties over the economy. |
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The government is reluctant to impose higher standards for staffing because of concerns over cost. |
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For one thing, the Yemeni might be reluctant to see the investigation stray into uncomfortable areas. |
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Perhaps he was simply reluctant to reopen a debate that came to define, if not paralyse, much of his second term. |
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He said financial institutions were now reluctant to assist peasant farmers because of the bad record of debt repayments. |
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Although I understand their concern I am quite reluctant to get an amnio and take any risk. |
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The guy was reluctant at first and refused to come with me, but I could tell he needed my help. |
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Joshua himself appeared reluctant to criticize the work of other carvers, publicly at least, unless requested to do so. |
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Yes, there is a rush on these things but dealers are also reluctant to use them as replacements because they want to sell them. |
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Finance directors will be reluctant to take a big hit on their profits, so where possible will look around for other cost savings. |
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She was reluctant to leave but headed off into the darkness, reins fastened to the saddle and stirrups run up the leathers. |
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Labour tenants, intent on salvaging some of their status as peasants, were often reluctant workers. |
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The shy birds were reluctant to cache when observed and often made fake deposits. |
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I have no idea why the cheque was not paid in, but I'm reluctant to try banking it after all this time. |
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Many restaurants were reluctant to participate in this study, believing it might interfere with customer patronage or employee service. |
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However, the prospect of dragging a reluctant teenager around may put off most parents before you've even left the house. |
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Hastie was previously reluctant to reveal details of the contracts until he was sure the company had a secure future. |
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He became reluctant to run the ball when pressured and sometimes threw ill-timed passes. |
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Residents of apartments there were reluctant to speak on the issue to this newspaper. |
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She's reluctant to suggest that women are staying away from the polling booths because they're merely apathetic. |
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High wages and rigid labor rules have hurt productivity, eroded earnings, and made companies reluctant to hire. |
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While reluctant to pinpoint the event as a sign of renewed faction fighting, he said police were monitoring the situation. |
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So he began to move away from such division to reluctant toleration of partition of India. |
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With long-time friends and family nearby, he's reluctant to give it all up for work. |
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Dunphy is reluctant to be drawn on his experience of running a pirate station. |
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Still, many publishers seemingly remain reluctant to take this first step into citizen journalism. |
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She inwardly huffed, knowing that this would go on forever until she stepped in to give the reluctant man a push. |
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Some armigers are reluctant to use their heraldry as they feel that to do so may seem somewhat pretentious. |
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For some reason, he was reluctant to force the lock or call in a locksmith. |
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A knock on the door roused me from my seat a moment later, and I was more than a little reluctant to answer it. |
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But such is the widespread use of touts, some locals are reluctant to contact the Gardai. |
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The government was reluctant to push through the sort of housecleaning that the United States went through in its recent crisis. |
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Heavy settlement of northeastern Mississippi awaited two more treaties made with the reluctant Choctaws. |
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The British Academy is still hopelessly reluctant at giving pop hits like Mamma Mia! |
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The British Government has appointed a language supremo to encourage reluctant Brits to learn foreign languages from age seven. |
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At first he was reluctant to accept my aid but once I played a soothing and pacific melody from my flute his spirit was calmed. |
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This guy was so reluctant to spend money he actually walked around with cardboard in the bottom of his holey shoes. |
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Tony was reluctant to let anyone else touch the wallet, as if alien fingers might sully the purity of his dad's memory. |
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At a time when India's experienced players are reluctant to take up this high-pressure job, Kumble's sentiment is admirable. |
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Even teachers are reluctant to intervene and often feel it is not their responsibility to discipline young people. |
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The series coincided with a push by programme makers to persuade a reluctant BBC to let them leave the studio and film on the streets. |
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He was a reluctant celebrity, less comfortable in the limelight than in the hermit-like world he fashioned for himself off the pitcher's mound. |
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Are they both striving for success and reluctant to give their other half the time they deserve? |
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It is clear, however, that commanders on the ground are reluctant to cede power to a foreign force. |
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However, even this is proving hugely controversial with many reluctant to cede power to a centralised Pacific body. |
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The FBI has also been too reluctant in the past to accept help or advice from other security services. |
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Unlike today, most organized religions reported on in 1983 were reluctant to embrace gay people. |
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It should not be concluded from this that Norman and Plantagenet kings were reluctant to see the orbit of their influence enlarged. |
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Despite eight miserable years in opposition the party still seems reluctant to take this lesson on board. |
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But it is reluctant to issue a cast-iron guarantee that every contract will meet its target, even though none has fallen short to date. |
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Traditionally, stockbrokers have been reluctant to offer clients products designed for falling markets. |
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And there were also some old-time publishers and their employees who were reluctant to adopt new ways of doing things. |
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There's a hangover from that which has made people reluctant to chase after the big money. |
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This season Wells has been reluctant to throw over the inner half of the plate, and his tendency to hang pitches has been costly. |
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I am reluctant to state a case when the substratum was not the right substratum. |
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The teachers needed a selection of books that would catch the reluctant readers' attention and hook them on reading. |
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Asean wants the nuclear powers, who have been reluctant to acknowledge the treaty, to agree to protocol measures attached to the treaty. |
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He was reluctant to become involved in the issue, stating it was not his place to comment. |
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I feel like a reluctant voyeur, watching a flower die in heart wrenching, time lapse photography. |
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That is why they had been reluctant to give their adulterous sister a proper burial. |
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Gandhari is given away by reluctant parents to a blind but virile husband, yet is unable to become a mother by natural means. |
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That can be very difficult if the source of the information is reluctant to appear in court, e.g. because he fears for his life. |
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The second period degenerated to bad tempered aggression with a referee reluctant to impose adequate discipline. |
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Also, captains and ship owners might be reluctant to regularly exchange ballast in order to extend the life of ballast pumps. |
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Joe was reluctant to rely on the drug, refusing it even when Ben and Hoss moved him to a buckboard for transportation back to the Ponderosa. |
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All free-tailed bats and two noctules reluctant to feed by themselves had to be fed by hand. |
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In the twentieth century they went from high-handed neutralism to reluctant participation in a European adventure. |
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A substantial customer might be reluctant to upsize the fries, or order two Big Macs, or an extra apple pie, from a counter person. |
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Priestley is reluctant to say what he will bring to it from his own upbringing in Vancouver. |
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Between slightly grumpy and reluctant moves towards the study and my notebook I spent as much time snoozing in the sun as I could manage. |
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Why do you think scientists have been reluctant to grapple with this nebulous notion of the human mind? |
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The Queens Street car park, near to Tavistock Street, has a bit of an unsavoury reputation locally and many owners are reluctant to park there. |
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All in all it's been a boring, unsatisfactory day and, at the end of it, I'm not in the least reluctant to apply head to pillow. |
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Shell the mussels, watching out for any reluctant beards, and discard any that aren't open. |
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You won't be so reluctant to admit it when I have him eating out of your hand. |
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I am reluctant to do that because I have a small family and slatted sheds do have certain obvious health risks. |
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He also has yet to uncork a strong throw from center, and he's understandably reluctant to dive for balls. |
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Although often uncooperative, they were reluctant to leave at the end of the day. |
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Clients who are reluctant to venture out to a movie theater can watch films in their own homes. |
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There's a sombre mournfulness that suggests deep hurt and painful, reluctant acceptance. |
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When liberals in Spain overthrew their king, the ultras pressed the reluctant government for action. |
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Blinks is so called because its tiny greenish-white flowers rarely open fully, fancifully as if they were reluctant to face the sun. |
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He was a bit reluctant to co-operate to start with, but when the project was explained to him he was happy to help. |
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Unlike mere trendy mopers, genuinely depressive musicians are often reluctant to deal with their darkest feelings. |
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Catchers are reluctant sometimes to talk about this because they don't want to come across as a bunch of bleeding hearts. |
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Many are reluctant moonlighters, working as caterers, architects, or accountants to support their commitment to their art. |
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People who have got used to that sort of moolah rolling in, without having to lift a finger for it, are reluctant to give it up. |
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His own miraculous power is seemingly well documented, though he himself was reluctant to speak of it. |
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The truth is that the disciples were very reluctant to believe in Christ's miracles. |
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There is something in the Indian mindset which makes us reluctant to pay for media. |
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Publicans say the licensed trade is dying in Bradford as people are reluctant to re-open businesses which were damaged during the riots. |
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Indeed they were reluctant to abandon it, even after fashion decreed the longer midi or maxi. |
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Some are in townships and inner city suburbs where banks have been reluctant to lend to potential buyers. |
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Accompanied by the reluctant Alan, she begins shadowing him and tracing his movements. |
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I became the reluctant owner of another pair of trousers, a new top, and a couple of T-shirts. |
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In the story, this inability to finish a picture is a metaphor for being reluctant to commit to a relationship. |
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The Tokelauans, a Polynesian people, are reluctant over any change in status which would create the world's ultimate microstate. |
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Crisper editing probably would have helped, but the filmmakers apparently were reluctant to lose a single frame of Murphy in makeup. |
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Little wonder that many women were reluctant to migrate to the colonies, just as some of their 19th century descendants resisted moving westward. |
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Opium production has soared to record levels, and farmers continue to be reluctant to plant crops that pay buttons by comparison. |
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Severely affected birds may have a marked bowing of the tibia, be reluctant to move, and have a stilted gait. |
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Without the crutch of music, self-doubt menaced him, and he was a reluctant public communicator. |
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She is a reluctant celebrity, finding extreme discomfort in the self-congratulatory world of literary awards. |
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The sun king was, however, reluctant to call upon the services of the princes of the blood. |
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Philadelphia, however, remained reluctant to change on the fly because the Flyers are successful forecheckers. |
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Crackdowns by the Criminal Assets Bureau have made criminals reluctant to bank their money in the republic. |
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No doubt Kleinfeld will face foot-dragging from people reluctant to change. |
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While reluctant to jump on the celebrity bandwagon, Mansfield has been active in pursuing other ways to move his company forward. |
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Maybe they're reluctant to divulge to us what they divulge to correspondents from other networks. |
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Mr Wilson was brought up on a market garden in Kent, but was a reluctant horticulturalist. |
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Edward de Bono has seemingly cornered the market, and publishers are reluctant to try to take on the champ. |
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She says immigrant women would be reluctant to trust an agency that accompanies police on busts. |
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Though Nora is at first reluctant about going away for the holidays, she soon warms to the idea. |
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Blain is reluctant to make forecasts, and in team meetings the mantra of one game at a time has been chanted, borne of bitter experience. |
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The media community is reluctant to admit that Sassenach papers could overtake the homegrown product. |
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Many women are reluctant to divorce because remarriage is difficult for them. |
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I was reluctant to have the party but my daughter and wife said not to be selfish and talked me into it. |
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I'm always reluctant to do so because I don't want this blog to turn into autobiography by other means. |
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He it was who, in the 1850s, persuaded his reluctant coachman to make the first gliding flight in history, across the valley at Brompton. |
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The history of the decoration of the Escorial is a record of Philip's sometimes reluctant accommodation to circumstances beyond his control. |
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People who have had that sort of bad experience are reluctant to return and warn off their friends and acquaintances as well. |
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After quickly saddling and bridling Fleet, he grabbed the bay's reins and pulled the reluctant gelding outside into the pouring rain. |
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She looked over to see Leslie giving a reluctant child a piece of saltwater taffy. |
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The British were reluctant to cede the Ionians back to Greece in the 1860s, and it's easy to see why. |
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The ACTU has been, it seems, reluctant to make much of airside union issues these days. |
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Latham seems to be a reluctant joiner whereas Abbott is naturally gregarious. |
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I sauntered through the upstairs hall, reluctant to go out into the raging blizzard outside. |
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Marx, of course, was famously reluctant to provide recipes for future cookshops. |
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Zack was reluctant and frowning, but I exercised fatherly priviledge and basically railroaded him into the trip. |
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However, the government has been reluctant to transfer its power to local administrations. |
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He was invalided out of the agency after a violent incident, in which he should have died, and is reluctant to be drawn back in. |
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Blanche wormed the details out of a very reluctant Stella with much coaxing and promising of new clothes. |
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Listen real close, you can almost hear the reluctant focus groups plopping down in their rented folding chairs. |
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So why then are the surgeons so reluctant to operate on conscious patients? |
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He was reluctant to do this, but of late severe sick headaches made the step imperative, and he consented to go to the hospital. |
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When the bell rang, sounding the end of school with its high pitched whine, they were reluctant to part, but they did so. |
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In a lesser artist and person, we might have suspected mere affectation, or an attempt at playing the reluctant genius. |
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Bennett ends up having to turn his music down, recharge her van's flat battery, and become her reluctant carer. |
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I was reluctant but not stubborn, I listened to what he had to say because I value him and his opinions. |
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I was reluctant at first as the staff were nearly all youngsters in their teens and early twenties, but I decided to give it a go. |
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This may confer an added benefit on women, whose families may be reluctant to let them study overseas. |
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Council seemed reluctant to implement most of the requests without further study, though some seemed agreeable to the 2003 tax-freeze idea. |
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All too often tube feeds and supplements are used for patients who are reluctant to feed because they are quicker. |
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The No. 1 reason cited by women who are reluctant to indulge their male partners' kinks is the fear that they're stepping onto a slippery slope. |
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We scramble between fishing rods, cameras and delicious crab claws, reluctant to sacrifice any of the three. |
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The Harvard University professor is reluctant to guess which of the 150 species of wood ant you may have seen. |
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Keane was reluctant to discuss further United's chances of re-entering the title race. |
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The ensuing national outrage persuaded a reluctant US public to join the second world war. |
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After the defeat of the dictator, she was reluctant to return as the fedayeen were still operating in the town. |
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His writings are a model of lucidity and a pleasure to read, though he confessed that he was a reluctant writer. |
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The entire hotel had to be refurbished and refurnished at a cost she was reluctant to divulge. |
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First, courts have not always been reluctant to adjudicate allocations of resources. |
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However, to imply that it is the result of Scottish musicians being reluctant to move to London is incorrect. |
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The principal players include a seaweed salesman, his reluctant wife, his overbearing mother-in-law and her lunkheaded son. |
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Government from the very inception was reluctant to define and characterise the problem. |
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A sub-plot sees Sanderson still yearning for his ex-wife, but reluctant to make the first move towards a reconciliation. |
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A reluctant priest came to his bedside, after Voltaire threatened legal action against him if he did not come. |
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The pharmaceutical industry has been reluctant to study medicines in children for various reasons. |
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By now we're reluctant to relinquish them, so like a part of our bodies have they become. |
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France has been reluctant to relinquish the remaining pieces of its colonial empire. |
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What on earth could be in our files that made them so reluctant to give us access? |
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People are somewhat more reluctant to talk to foreigners than they were at the beginning. |
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The answer did not completely satisfy the other young woman, but she nodded in reluctant acceptance. |
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The events of the past week will make foreign governments extremely reluctant to put their citizens at risk. |
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Courts are rightly reluctant to judge what statements in political ads are merely misleading. |
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The reluctant heroes are whisked off into space for their biggest role ever. |
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Still, counterterrorism agencies remain reluctant to share sensitive information or cooperate on prosecutions. |
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The pharmaceutical industry could be reluctant to waive any part of its power in the conduct of studies that it funds entirely. |
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Oddly enough, he found himself reluctant to share any specifics of that night. |
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In portraying the therapist, her combination of coldness and reluctant vulnerability is spot on. |
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But that would entail spending money the company is reluctant to spend right now. |
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But no, every one of the reluctant grooms went along with the tackiest ceremonies imaginable. |
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Patients are even more reluctant to discuss fecal incontinence than urinary incontinence. |
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Though the Supreme Court has now endorsed the reform process, most of its members were reluctant converts at best. |
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There are a lot of people, though, who would be very reluctant to let our traditional flag go. |
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Government officials always seem so reluctant to define qualifications for recipients of social welfare. |
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Then one watches the gentle firmness with which a herdsman will get a reluctant goat to suckle a kid and realizes how precious these animals are to the Rabari. |
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Some of the most explosive opportunities could be based around things that the Western world seems reluctant to adopt. |
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And even the blogs covering this seismic event moment by moment were reluctant to sound the all-clear. |
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Here, some reluctant participants at a family reunion are transformed in a beatific bunch by a ride in the Caravan. |
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Republican senators who were briefed on the crisis in Iraq Thursday also were reluctant to support U.S. air strikes in Iraq. |
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If the buyer prefered to avoid that route, well, Danny says he would be reluctant to sell the firearm. |
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He seems to have waffled on the matter, though, and some on the right will probably be more reluctant to withdraw now that blood has been spilled. |
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Despite ASEAN's strong request, Japan was earlier reluctant to accede to the treaty amid worries that the pact could constrain its security alliance with the United States. |
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The question of whether the sequels were jinxed is one that the cast and crew are reluctant to acknowledge, but one which has crossed their minds. |
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Chavez was reluctant to discuss an active investigation, so he told me an intricate story that is a composite of real meth cases. |
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He welcomes the comparisons to his congregant, but is reluctant to take all the credit. |
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He seems reluctant to advertise the fact he has a cousin from France. |
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At the same time, however, those alienated by Federalists and Whigs proved somewhat reluctant to cast their lot with political parties dominated by southern planters. |
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Poor levels of lighting had been making elderly residents reluctant to go out at night to events in the Butler Community Centre or even to the local shops. |
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These reluctant leaders tamed disorderly rebels into a disciplined force, and sought enough concessions from the king to send the commons home content. |
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Some debts are written off, although creditors are reluctant to do so. |
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Acting was still a disreputable profession, but respectable Nelly is reluctant to become his kept woman. |
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And even EMS dispatch vets, generally reluctant to second-guess the work of one of their own, have piled on. |
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Born in York in November 1907, he was called up into the Army in November 1939 and joined the Royal Army Service Corp, becoming a reluctant lance corporal. |
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On the other hand, politicians have been markedly reluctant to reduce pluralism in office holding, which is largely responsible for establishing them as a caste. |
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In fact, I found myself reluctant to skip any topic in the book. |
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In the past, companies were reluctant to share information with suppliers. |
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Today, many ordinary people are still reluctant to talk about politics. |
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But people appear increasingly reluctant to intervene in public places. |
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I was reluctant to do the Olympics because I thought it would be a zoo. |
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One of the lessons learned from the programme was how reluctant the potential owners and tenants were to invest in historic buildings before restoration. |
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There is a myth, dating back to George Washington, that voters are entranced by the reluctant presidential candidate. |
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I see Christy grin as she drags a reluctant Mike onto the dance floor. |
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And if candidates on the ballot this year are reluctant to campaign alongside Sanders, they are not shy about taking his money. |
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Risk-averse oil companies are simply reluctant to spend money. |
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He was also reluctant to reverse the full pullout of combat forces in Iraq, which fulfilled a key campaign promise. |
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It made victims reluctant to prosecute, and juries loath to convict. |
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The army of typists, filing clerks, cashiers and drivers were inefficient, reluctant to take initiative, and imbued with an ethos of red tape and routinism. |
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Interest groups are reluctant to associate closely or openly with political parties, and the Labour party's connections with the trade unions have been loosened. |
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The state assumes full responsibility for all development projects and the well-being of its citizens and is reluctant to admit need for external assistance. |
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Coddington, the reluctant celebrity, shares the facts of her life in her memoir but she is grudging with emotional revelations. |
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In an interview with The Daily Beast, halter sounded at least a tad reluctant to take on the mantle of the Great Progressive Hope. |
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Consumers, hamstrung by low confidence and a weak recovery, are reluctant to spend and borrow. |
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Leaders of churches, for example, may be reluctant to advocate restrictive legislation because they are seen to represent authoritarian institutions. |
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Europeans are reluctant to describe the Brussels museum shooting as an anti-Semitic hate crime. |
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Even long after that disclosure, Snapchat was reluctant to taking the necessary steps to secure user data. |
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I was somewhat reluctant to say I told you so, but there you have it. |
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Scientists have observed a dolphin trying to get a reluctant moray eel to come out of its crevice by poking it with the spiny body of a dead scorpionfish. |
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Journalism assumes an immutable truth, that a few more calls, a bit more reporting will tease it out of reluctant informants. |
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Many are reluctant to throw that 82 mile-an-hour screwball because they're afraid they're going to be changing the scoreboard with just one bad pitch. |
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The Ukranian marksman seems reluctant to play with a protective mask, and will in all probability miss out to be replaced again by Jon Dahl Tomasson. |
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Broster noted that the Thembu were reluctant to sell beadwork. |
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A stubborn defender of his own beliefs, and commendably reluctant to bow and scrape at the altar of the Old Firm, he may have overstepped the mark this time. |
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Many new mothers remain reluctant to take such medications while nursing. |
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Some in Sulawesi and Papua provinces, expected to be the hardest hit, remained reluctant to leave, despite the 2004 experience. |
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The gypsies or tinkers as they were better known walked around the fair the whole day trying to sell ponnies, strainers and tin cans to reluctant buyers. |
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If the plaintiff has a strong and apparently meritorious claim the court is reluctant to make an order which may have the effect of shutting the plaintiff out. |
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To date, servicers have been reluctant to amend loans, saying they could be sued by loan investors who might be disadvantaged by the modification. |
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Further, the news that the kilo is in such imminent danger of extinction will no doubt be seen as a vindication by Brits reluctant to sell their fruit and veg in metric units. |
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In any case, with Beeching reluctant to play the game and with Marples determined to be tough, it was difficult to predict which lines would be spared in advance. |
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Most microscopists held that the blood of different mammals could not be differentiated, and so were reluctant to testify when a defendant's life might be at stake. |
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But in real life Harris is shy and humble, reluctant to give away details about his love life or toot his own horn in any way. |
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As children solidly learn the transitivity status of particular verbs, they become more reluctant to use those verbs in other argument structure constructions. |
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Americans don't trust big government and are reluctant to pay for it. |
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I personally thought that Carina would be rather reluctant to give up the position of King's mistress even if Edmund had promised her nothing more. |
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That omission would seem very promising, save that department officials were reluctant to underline its importance. |
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The women often did not have paid sick days and were reluctant to take time off for illness as it meant they would have extra work when they returned. |
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Thus banks now have excess funds as they are reluctant to channel money into the high-risk real sector, that owes a massive amount of bad debts to the banks. |
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The excited squeals of hungry piglets and the bleats of insistent lambs seem better designed for pestering reluctant mothers than for conveying a simple message of need. |
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With a penn'orth of ceiling white, twopenn'orth of lime and a penn'orth of colour powder plus the enforced help of two very reluctant sisters, the house was re-decorated. |
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Even after nearly 50 years, Ehrenreich is reluctant to describe the experiences as mystical. |
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We are blinkered by outdated stereotypes and we're reluctant to move beyond them, because at the end of the day we've never forgiven Germany for unleashing Hitler on Europe. |
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Firms with poor prospects are reluctant to underprice because they are not likely to have the opportunity to make this up on a second offering of equity. |
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We can understand that some people might be reluctant to give information. |
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Indeed, when reluctant authors are cajoled into participating in viral marketing, the results are less than spectacular. |
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The sleeve link was tucked, before Morris's yearning eyes, into the reluctant pocket of the wide white waistcoat, and Morris returned to his place. |
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There was always gossip about longtime rivalries and unforgiven grudges, but they were reluctant to air secrets which might tarnish their collective image. |
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He took it, almost reluctant to open it, but still he unfurled the flag. |
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They were much more sexually active than the reluctant Dane, who attended bordellos only to pay for a gazing upon the wares, while never touching. |
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Unlike some previous recessions, the current US slowdown seems to have been caused not by reluctant consumers, but by a sudden slump in company spending. |
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The cartoons are little morality plays aimed at bucking up the national will, putting steel in the spine, gently guiding the reluctant towards their duties. |
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But this is very controversial, as doctors are still acutely reluctant to recommend that non-drinkers start drinking because there's a risk of addiction. |
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At first, Mr Desmond was reluctant to sell any shares back to Telenor and Communicorp but he then came up with the non-negotiable price, said Mr Digerud. |
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But half of all schools had found it necessary to reduce the time they allocated for swimming and were failing to make any provision for non-swimmers or reluctant swimmers. |
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A few high-profile convictions can go a long way in making insiders reluctant to cash in on inside information for a quick buck. |
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With his reluctant audience unable to muster up the required level of self-deprecation to laugh at the joke, he just cackles away to himself regardless. |
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Then the sound of motorbikes being wheeled out, the irregular repeated staccato of kicks, then the reluctant engines being revved to keep them firing in the cold cold air. |
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The horse was reluctant to enter the stalls but came through with a storming late run to edge out Touch of the Blues by three-quarters of a length with Century City third. |
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Clapper says he was reluctant to rejoin the administration that got rid of him before. |
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I was reluctant to ask anything too specific, because I felt like I would be asking for trouble! |
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The British public has been reluctant to get involved again in a Middle Eastern war, just as the American public was. |
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Is there any recent precedent for a reluctant but strong warrior in Republican politics? |
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These residents were reluctant to return to the estate but may have been prepared to move into one of the recreation camps that were eventually set aside for the purpose. |
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Although the media can be reluctant to analyse or even accept that its own role is any more than that of an objective observer, its networks are formidable. |
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The club has found some people reluctant or nervous about taking on this new challenge as they haven't rowed before and feel they will make a hames of it. |
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Although staff at the Crooked Billet are reluctant to expand on frightening details, they do not wholly refute the suggestion that an Irish woman haunts the cellars. |
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Actually, education opportunity was given to all Tibetan refugee children, but TCV accepted only orphans and my parents were reluctant to send me to a far away place. |
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Fortunately, the risk of a re-operation for a heterograft, particularly a first re-operation, has been extremely low in experienced hands so we're not reluctant to do that. |
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Wisely reluctant to admit the rabble into her office, she set up camp first in the too-small government caucus room, and then in the resplendent old legislative chamber. |
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In some places, it was business as usual, but many parts of the city were still influenced by the holiday atmosphere, and people were reluctant to work. |
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Indeed, even the experts are reluctant to award the profession too many stress points, suggesting that a lot of what we see chez Ramsay is food cinema. |
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Surprisingly this all turned out to be quite fun, but I was still happy to return to the chocolate-box beauty of Aix after my reluctant taste of reality. |
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Longtime fans of the genre love it too, but if you're looking to initiate a reluctant friend into the percussive pleasures of chopsocky cinema, this is a fine place to start. |
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Teens, especially reluctant readers, will enjoy this fast-paced action novel marked by cliffhanging chapters and realistic snowboarding and skiing action. |
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With some products becoming outdated within six months, clients are reluctant to reclaim these items, resulting in lost revenue for the pawnbrokers. |
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Initially, most Afghan warlords regarded the Special Forces merely as paymasters, and were reluctant to let them go to the front lest they be injured or killed. |
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For instance, jurors in Connecticut, New York and other northeastern states are much more reluctant than jurors in other parts of the country to impose the death penalty. |
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He contented himself with fawning attentions to his reluctant wife. |
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The new bill will actually make use of colored inks, something the U.S. has been reluctant to adopt despite the prevalent use of colorful bills in other countries. |
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It doesn't take a genius to understand why Bremmer and his boss are so reluctant to employ the universal concept of democracy in their occupied fief. |
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In the early nineties he had complained that film companies were getting reluctant to insure him against finishing a film, but he still continued to work as often as he could. |
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The demands of security, weather protection, and access to two internal and three external spaces, result in the interspace becoming a reluctant middle. |
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Soon I came to the reluctant conclusion that it was going to be an unexciting day, I decided to seek a bit of sun, sea and sand by taking my familiar plod along the front. |
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Given their defense of involuntary treatment as not only justified but morally mandatory, psychiatrists seem weirdly reluctant to acknowledge their role in it. |
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He was reluctant to be drawn into any detailed discussion of this point. |
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I could write about Luke's infrequent and reluctant observances of personal hygiene, or his frequent and enthusiastic attempts at cornball humour. |
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Anna remembers her mother fondly and is reluctant to embrace a new mother. |
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For more than a wee while, we discussed the potato and poteen, that wickedly potent brew that has been known to kick-start a reluctant cow into labour. |
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The thought there is that teams are reluctant to forecheck against a goaltender who basically acts as a third defenseman and can move the puck up the ice very efficiently. |
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But the hospital administration is reluctant to increase the vacation time, since they recently increased CRNA salaries. |
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The police have been reluctant to take their investigation any further. |
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Aged 38 and having been unwell during the war, Bradman had been reluctant to play. |
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Overages often seem the perfect solution to persuade a reluctant landowner to part with his property. |
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Polyolefin resin producers appear to be cautiously supporting this new service, although most sources were reluctant to be quoted directly. |
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Dormice are almost completely arboreal in habit but much less reluctant to cross open ground than was thought even recently. |
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Robert was reluctant to switch to the production of steel, but in 1875 the works was forced to close. |
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Chadwick was reluctant to move Tube Alloys there, believing that the United Kingdom was a better location for the isotope separation plant. |
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Certain data or questions should be passed up the line even when a higher-up is reluctant to have it happen. |
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