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Surveys by firms such as Ernst & Young, Goldman Sachs and McKinsey all describe how the telecom, banking, retail, construction and oil and gas industries are booming, sending foreign direct investment to dramatic new highs, while themselves representing an eagerness among global firms to attract business in Africa.
Tsiolkas's work is famed for its vigour, anger and eagerness to tackle sex, drugs and violence.
Related: Four things we still don't know after Hillary Clinton's email press conference While taking questions from reporters, Clinton tried to stay on-message – she regretted using the single account in hindsight, she reiterated her eagerness for the public to read emails her team deemed official – but with every answer, it seemed, came more trouble.
West quickly deduced that explaining the killer's unusual eagerness to avoid harming his victims before he killed them was the key to the murderer's mental make-up.
Feeling increasingly alienated, the protagonist, Marston, finds himself musing on the meanings of America, and especially its eagerness to forget history: "Americans, he liked to say, should be born with fins, and perhaps they were – perhaps money was a form of fin.
He can seem ill-at-ease in the raucous world of day-to-day politics – witness his eagerness always to be photographed in a factory in a yellow jacket.
And this once-in-a-generation team has shown their eagerness to keep gorging on the flesh of NSW for as long as they can before age catches up with them and they have to make that decision all men of a certain age must make: Do I buckle my pants above my gut or below it?
The awards demonstrate Hollywood's novel eagerness to be beguiled by a smart, literate script with classy performances from intelligent grown-ups.
Tanzania's eagerness to close the Mtabila camp is the result of wide-ranging political concerns.
Luckily it didn't seem to get much further," he adds, but his eagerness to repeat the line to another journalist casts some doubt on his relief.
The whole argument about health, then, is a flimsy pretext for signalling the SNP's willingness – eagerness even – to get stuck in to the parliamentary powerplay that will follow the indecisive election that's now widely predicted for May.
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The primary grammatical function of "eagerness" is as a noun , representing a state of enthusiastic desire or anticipation. As Ludwig AI explains, it is a positive and suitable word for both formal and informal situations.
Expression frequency: Very common
