Reluctancy

Word RELUCTANCY
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Maybe this corporate money and the obligations it buys from the elected officials is the reason for dubious wars, reluctancy in environment protection and tax cuts for the rich in war times. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Kidd's reluctancy to shoot was part of the reason coach Avery Johnson benched him for the final 34 seconds of a pivotal game against San Antonio the night before. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Submitting by the advice of one part of her subjects to the menace of the others, and learning that Lindesay was arrived in a boasting, that is, threatening humour, the Queen, “with some reluctancy, and with tears,” saith Knox, subscribed one deed resigning her crown to her infant son, and another establishing the Earl of Murray regent. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Lust counsels one thing, reason another, there is a new reluctancy in men. ❋ Unknown (2007)

With that said, I believe that there was some reluctancy on K-Fed ` s part to execute a 50/50 shared visitation schedule. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Isaac, finding it was in vain to disguise himself, offered twenty shillings for a discharge, which she absolutely refused under fifty pounds: at last, however, she was brought down to five, which he paid with great reluctancy, rather than be prosecuted for a rape. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Then, you also have what Cardinal Ratsinger (ph) calls a certain European self-consciousness, which comes through, whereby even though the European cardinals may say theoretically they are open to an African pope, when it comes to the crunch, there will still be a certain reluctancy on their part to go into what is really a very much unknown. ❋ Unknown (2003)

BELVOIR: I have brought him, madam, but I am ashamed to say with what reluctancy. ❋ Unknown (1999)

But that thou mightest, reader, both know, and with equal indignation abhor, the snarlings and virulency of these men, take it in their own words, although I cannot without infinite reluctancy allege what they with all audaciousness have uttered. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)

And herein you may observe two things: -- something intimated; and that is, an unwillingness in men to own these dispensations of God; hence the Lord undertakes himself to set on a conviction upon them, as a thing of great difficulty; -- and something expressed; which is the conviction itself that shall in the issue fall upon them, notwithstanding all their reluctancy. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)

The constant reluctancy and conquering prevalency of the will against it defeats its title unto rule and dominion, as the apostle declares at large in the next chapter. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)

So when a Leathern Bottle is fill'd with Air and stopp'd up close, if you hold it under Water; it will still strive to get up, till it returns to its place of Air; and then it rests, and its reluctancy and propensity to ascend, ceases. ❋ Ibn Tufail (N/A)

It was with great reluctancy that Miller parted with this master, and he became every day after more and more uneasy, because he found no other master would let him work with them, upon the same account; so that by degrees he was reduced to the great necessity in the country, and though he was willing to work, yet could not tell which way to turn his hand. ❋ Arthur L. Hayward (N/A)

That he might do this with less reluctancy they were so kind as to put him out upon liking to three or four trades; but it happening unluckily that there was work to be done in all of them, Jones could not be brought to go apprentice to any, but idled on amongst his companions, without ever thinking of applying himself to any business whatever. ❋ Arthur L. Hayward (N/A)

The novels written by men have generally some manliness, some recollection of the higher impulses which occasionally act on the minds of men; some reluctancy in revealing the more infirm movements of the mind; and some doubts as to the absorption of all human nature in one perpetual whirl of love-making. ❋ Various (N/A)

He went through these more sublime studies with extraordinary success, and proceeded doctor of divinity with uncommon applause, though his modesty gave him a reluctancy in that honor. ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

To these had nature joined and annexed me: now she parts us; I am ready to depart, as from friends and kinsmen, but yet without either reluctancy or compulsion. ❋ Emperor Of Rome Marcus Aurelius (N/A)

Do nothing against thy will, nor contrary to the community, nor without due examination, nor with reluctancy. ❋ Emperor Of Rome Marcus Aurelius (N/A)

The two men bowed, Richard with reluctancy, the Captain with easy bonhomie. ❋ Unknown (1921)

I am the first to deviate in any measure from the original plan, and I have done so with doubt and reluctancy. ❋ Clarence Budington Kelland (1922)

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