Sentence examples for expressed openness to from inspiring English sources

Some Democrats expressed openness to the idea, while several Senate Republicans expressed concern.

(Last May, N.Y.P.D. Commissioner William Bratton expressed openness to such a program, but did not offer any details).

But she did discuss her thinking on other questions, including the premium cap, and expressed openness to measures she had not previously embraced.

Later that year, after Russia invaded two regions of Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Merkel changed her position and expressed openness to Georgia's joining NATO.

Some council members who have expressed openness to revising the law have said they would do so only through a referendum.

While the ruling mainly concerned article 8, which protects privacy, it also expressed openness to applications from gay soldiers under article 10, which upholds freedom of expression.

And Congressional Republicans, after initially expressing openness to the jobs plan, turned sour when Mr. Obama on Monday proposed to offset its short-term costs with future tax increases on wealthy taxpayers.

It won't help him at all that his team's head coach, Pete Carroll, just made a statement expressing openness to medical marijuana for football players. .

Warner was the second pro-gun Democratic senator to express openness to new gun legislation in the wake of Friday's deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

Even on trade, Clinton is in a very different place than Sanders, they note, expressing openness to supporting a renegotiated Pacific trade deal.

Progressive activists have been hammering him for supporting Simpson-Bowles, highlighting the peril for Democrats who express openness to reducing benefits people feel they have earned over their lifetime.