Sentence examples for but were less ready from inspiring English sources

TourSpain says it is no thanks to the EU, which offered to bail out stricken carmakers like General Motors Europe during the economic crisis but were less ready to help Spain's tourism industry.

But others were less ready to welcome the star.

But other Israelis were less ready to dismiss the remarks, and not only because of the deep offense they caused.

The Wagenplatz shifted their mobile homes to another nearby space, but the Uferlos were less ready to move, prompting the police to announce their eviction.

But by the time Kia products arrived in the mid-1990's, Americans were less ready, to say the least, to embrace Korean cars.

Nearly one in three schools (32 per cent) said recruits were less ready to teach than five years ago.

The cynical media were less ready to believe the burly Scot's promises than Hill, and in this instance it was the journalists who were proved right.

Gender was significantly related to one's sexual self-view, where girls were less ready for sex than boys.

Their culture valued modesty and purity, where women were less ready to discuss the idea of sexual attraction as a motive for handwashing.

These surveys had been useful in extending the knowledge of the school personnel about the influence of war on children, and most children had readily accepted to fill in the questionnaires while parents were less ready to accept the surveys.

One study suggested that this mistrust cascaded into misperceptions of personal risk: one survey on HIV risk behavior and perceptions among Native American women in the US revealed that those who were classified as higher risk actually felt less vulnerable to HIV and were less ready to change their behaviors compared with those classified as lower-risk [ 90].