Sentence examples for are loath to commit from inspiring English sources

Donors, however, are loath to commit their money to big projects like these.

We can take a little snow. A. A little, yes, but public officials, especially elected ones, are loath to commit the same mistakes made in 1969 when a blizzard left much of the city incapacitated.

But he is loath to commit to even casual chit-chat about anything other than sports.

The United States, also quite reasonably, is loath to commit to binding emissions reductions of its own until nascent market competitors like India and China do the same.

But her young son, Trig, was to have an operation — routine but still worrisome — on the Friday before Election Day, and so the mother was loath to commit to anything.

With a budget battle looming and the United States trying to extricate its fighting forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, he was loath to commit troops and treasure in a country that his defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, said was not a vital interest of the United States.

But companies are loath to give away such secrets.

I am loath to give up any books.

"He's loath to give it up," Ms. Lancaster said.

But he was loath to give up "60 Minutes".

Automakers in Detroit and elsewhere may be loath to give this notion credence.