(1) This is important, because it is sometimes easy to lose MPs, who are loth to admit it.
(2) She thinks it's simple sexism, though she is loth to spell this out: "You can say that, but if I do, I'm just seen as moaning, playing the woman card again.
(3) Even the RNC chair, Reince Priebus, who has been loth to alienate the mercurial Trump, weighed in meekly.
(4) However, the BBC is loth to give away any cash or relinquish power over BBC Worldwide, and is instead pushing for other forms of partnership such as sharing iPlayer technology.
(5) But its establishment is loth to do anything more than pay lip service to its followers.
(6) British diplomats and ministers have been touring European capitals trying to rally support for the proposals, and it has been notable that Cameron, in a belated effort to build alliances, has in recent weeks been loth to criticise his long-term opponent Juncker.
(7) Raphael wrote: “We believe our audience is sophisticated enough to accept a broad range of viewpoints, and we are loth to censor or avoid significant works of literature because they might be controversial.” BBC Radio 4 Publicity said online: “In Hilary Mantel’s mischievous story, a knock at the door announces an unexpected visitor who has plans to alter the course of history as people know it.
(8) Analysts still rate the shares, almost universally, as a buy or a hold and investors are loth to make waves at companies that perform.
(9) Mainstream rightwing politicians are loth to confront traditionalists, for fear of losing votes, and many pander to far-right themes.
(10) In a briefing note to advertisers obtained by the Guardian, the Standard – which has seen off 14 rivals in its history – is loth for readers to compare it to the downmarket freesheets London Lite and the London Paper, which closed last month, pointing out there are "many free quality models".
(11) Government ministers may be loth to agree to an inquiry, but others take a more sanguine view.
(12) And with politicians loth to put it front and centre, how can the warming of our world compete with the many other pressing issues that scream daily for our attention?
(13) The £30m approach was rejected out of hand by Liverpool, who would also be loth to sell the 26-year-old to a Premier League rival.
(14) Given the strength of their case, why are pensioners so loth to speak out in their own defence?
(15) Many in the US Congress view a deal that leaves Iran with any enrichment capacity as a form of appeasement, and Republicans would be loth to endorse a central Obama foreign policy initiative.
(16) The manager has brought his strongest available squad to southern Italy and he indicated that he was loth to make too many changes to the team that drew 1-1 at home to Everton on Sunday.
(17) But despite the overcrowding, the seals seem loth to stray far from the shore, playing and bathing in the breakers, but never far from land.
(18) He is the one Everton and their fans would be loth to lose and United's offers so far have not come close to the club's valuation of the England international and their most creative outlet.
(19) Wenger had done his best to persuade Van Persie to stay and he was loth to sanction his release to United.
(20) "As loth as I am to give any credit to what's happened here, which is egregious, it's clear that some of the conversations this has generated, some of the debate, probably needed to happen," he said.
Reluctant
Definition:
(a.) Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling; disinclined; loth.
(a.) Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance; as, reluctant obedience.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why Corporate America is reluctant to take a stand on climate action Read more “We have these quantum leaps,” Friedberg said.
(2) The quantitative principles of test selection and interpretation have been reluctantly integrated into clinical practice.
(3) Even the three Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania , whose EU membership was championed by Britain, seemed reluctant to offer him public support.
(4) Massive protests in the 1990s by Indian, Latin American and south-east Asian peasant farmers, indigenous groups and their supporters put the companies on the back foot, and they were reluctantly forced to shelve the technology after the UN called for a de-facto moratorium in 2000.
(5) While RT is regarded as a major treatment innovation in psychiatry, nonpsychiatrists are reluctant or unaware of the uses of antipsychotic medication as it pertains to RT.
(6) Ron Hogg, the PCC for Durham says that dwindling resources and a reluctance to throw people in jail over a plant (I paraphrase slightly) has led him to instruct his officers to leave pot smokers alone.
(7) "I have always been very reluctant to play that hand, to say it was because I was a girl," she said.
(8) It didn’t help either, Leslie argues, that Labour initially appeared reluctant to focus on the need for continued deficit-reduction.
(9) The possibility of pulmonary edema from fluid overload in nonhypovolemic patients, and reluctance of field personnel to infuse fluid at the rates necessary to produce benefit raise further questions about realistic benefit of IV's in all but the most rural systems.
(10) I was an immigrant, although a reluctant one, and I was living in a huge strange country that resembled the America I'd encountered in books and in films so much less than I had expected.
(11) Even his own people, all holidaying, seemed reluctant to help.
(12) We are in a hotel in Mobile, Alabama, a small town on the Gulf Coast where he and Danny Glover are filming an action movie called Tokarev , in which Cage plays a reformed mobster reluctantly returning to his violent roots when his daughter is kidnapped.
(13) Sampson, 10 years older, is also reluctant to revisit the past.
(14) It remains highly unstable, reports said, making many residents reluctant to go back.
(15) Some 59% of voters said the UK's recent entanglements in Iraq and Afghanistan had made them more reluctant to support military interventions by UK forces abroad.
(16) Similarly, many pitfalls may be circumvented by the simple expedient of close collaboration between urologist and radiologist, and by the reluctance of either to accept urography that is suboptimal by current standards.
(17) "The book is widely taught in high schools across the country because of its appeal to reluctant readers.
(18) If Kim has indeed been set aside – and nobody outside Pyongyang really knows – then whoever has taken power is not seeking the limelight,” said John Everard, former UK ambassador to Pyongyang.“The visits to factories and military units that Kim frequently conducted have not been taken over by anyone else; they have simply stopped.” “As a woman in a very male-dominated society, the theory goes, she might be reluctant to push herself forward publicly straight away, preferring instead to bide her time while governing from behind the scenes.” However, Everard says though it is “not impossible” that Kim Yo-jong has stepped up to the leadership, “it is as hard to disprove this theory as it is to find anything to support it”.
(19) The agencies are understandably reluctant to get into operational detail, but it was reasonable to expect them to engage over the principles they applied prior to Paris.
(20) It is reluctantly forced to strip the UK of its treasured AAA rating when the government's growth forecasts have faced repeated downgrades and the upturn is out of sight.