Sentence examples for complete reluctance from inspiring English sources

"Modesty in Bannister," he wrote, "amounts to an almost complete reluctance to acknowledge his greatness".

"Within Whitehall as a minister, I found a complete reluctance by officials to take action on the warnings from local councillors and journalists of systematic corruption in the mayoral administration in Tower Hamlets.

Edwards, who later became a long-serving crime reporter for the Daily Mirror, told BBC Newsnight: "Between 1980 and 1985 I was employed at the News of the World as their crime correspondent and I was actually removed from my post because of my complete reluctance and refusal to pay police officers".

"There was a complete reluctance to acknowledge anything related to enhanced interrogation techniques and warrantless wiretapping and other controversial policies until reporters fleshed out details and got a hold of documents and made them public".

When today's freedom of access to online hardcore porn meets our society's complete reluctance to talk openly and honestly about sex, the result is that porn becomes the replacement for sex education.

I date younger men predominantly men in their 20s and realized six or seven years ago that a very important dual dynamic was going on: today's total freedom of access to hardcore porn online had met with our society's complete reluctance to talk honestly about sex.

So "Black Hawk Down," say, may be a piercing evocation of combat, based upon an oppressive sense of universal heroism and a near-complete reluctance to assess the political background (and the local meaning) of the problem in Somalia.

A complaint made by Gordon against a social worker who visited their Handsworth home "generated a reluctance" to complete an assessment, the BSCB said.

There was a reluctance to complete the questionnaire on readmissions.

Refusal reasons included the following: disinterest (59%), time (17%), reluctance to complete a telephone survey (3%), the topic (3%).

There might also be great reluctance to complete the questionnaire and high rates of missing values due to the hastiness to leave the hospital [ 19].