Sentence examples for Some unwillingness from inspiring English sources

Richard also faced some unwillingness on the part of his English subjects to serve in France.

Initially, he found some unwillingness to challenge authority among the students,who come from across the region and beyond, but that quickly dissipated.

"In her memoir, How It Was, she uses the words 'acquisition' and 'appropriation', which suggests the takeover of Hemingway's property was done with some unwillingness on her part, rather than a donation as the auctioned letter suggests.

New Jersey's first black bear hunt since 1970 was canceled yesterday as the state agency that sets hunting rules acceded, with some unwillingness, to Gov. Christine Todd Whitman's wishes and voted narrowly to ban it.

I once described it to someone who said I was obviously remembering newsreels of refugees I saw as a child". To Mr. Banville's surprise, the narrator of "Ghosts" began to sound suspiciously like the murderer who was the protagonist of his last novel, "The Book of Evidence". "I had some unwillingness to acknowledge that it was him, but of course it is," he said, with a hint of resignation.

All was not plain sailing in this scheme, for Augusta Amelia, who most inconveniently was already betrothed to the hereditary prince of Baden, showed some unwillingness to obey her father's new orders.

Some of the Republican opposition to federal support reflects budgetary concerns, some an unwillingness to do anything that could challenge the dominance of fossil fuels.

One can't argue with religion — and for some, the unwillingness to bend on marginal rates is just that.

Researchers blame ballooning college costs, inadequate aid packages and growing enrollment among low-income students — as well as some colleges' unwillingness to admit they have a hunger problem.

When Italians came here in the late 19th century and early 20th century, nativist Americans chafed at the new arrivals' inability — or in the eyes of some, their unwillingness — to master English, language being the most visible and tangible measure of whether an immigrant group is becoming American.

But the 133-year-old Davies Mansion on a New Haven hilltop has been haunted all the same in its decades as a Yale University property; by fire, vandalism and Yale's inability -- some said unwillingness -- to find a new use for an impractically lovely landmark.