Sentence examples for a general unwillingness from inspiring English sources

Mr. Jennings also said the board was plagued with "a general unwillingness to face the facts" of the chaos it created.

A senior official at the European Commission, which has been trying to hammer out common policies, laments "a general unwillingness to change national systems whatever they may be".

But with a deep financing crisis forcing layoffs and other cutbacks this week, some public television employees believe that format — and a general unwillingness to embrace the digital realities facing journalism — may be jeopardizing the program's future.

On Friday morning, banks needing to borrow from other banks were paying nearly 4percentt more in interest than the Treasury offers on savings bonds — a spread reflecting a general unwillingness to part with cash.

Better to learn this now and kick the download habit before it leads to harder stuff, like a general unwillingness to pay for material goods of any kind, or a failure to grasp the magic of a great brand.

This is a critical development in an industry where many innovative apps have been unable to displace archaic, inferior technologies in schools because of restricted funding and a general unwillingness of schools to disrupt the status quo.

There is also a more general unwillingness to defend Enlightenment values because they might be associated with asserting western, or worse, American values - a view I have encountered in the reactions to my own book on China, the Writing on the Wall, in which I argue that pluralism, a free press and the rule of law are vital for China's economic and political vitality.

She perfectly portrays people's general unwillingness to make a choice based on more than just immediate desire, even armed with the knowledge of the suffering it causes.

Far too often, the case for replacing federal programs with block grants to states - to leave them free to allocate welfare payments as they see fit - is simply cover for a general Republican unwillingness to support the poor in any form.

For example, it is possible that participation in additional CME activities was merely a marker of willingness to engage in the overall intervention, while the decision not to participate may have reflected a general reluctance, unwillingness or inability to adopt these dental preventive procedures.

My response, at about 17:40: the joy of life is great, but all these two hour lunches over a bottle or two of great wine and general unwillingness to do whatever it takes to compete and win is the reason why all the big public Internet companies are U.S. based.