Sentence examples for first unwilling from inspiring English sources

I remained a dutiful son, watching over her needs, but was at first unwilling and later unable to be tender.

The Syrians emerged as the big losers at the Nonaligned meeting, with Iran first unwilling and later unable to gather support for President Bashar al-Assad's government.

Many passengers were at first unwilling to leave the vast ship, believing it unsinkable, and the first lifeboats left half filled.

Raven's unlikely - and at first unwilling - ally is Gillian Sullivan, the judge who tried the case but soon after fell from grace when she was jailed for corruption.

During her first, unwilling incarceration (engineered by Giorgio) in a French sanitarium in 1932, she was said to be suffering from "hebephrenic psychosis" (the young person's version of what Kraepelin had defined as dementia praecox).

"I was at first unwilling to trust my eyes against the eyes of an editor who had been so long involved with such a text," Mr. Logan said in an interview.

After the network put in for a double order of episodes, postproduction on the first half began overlapping with the filming of the second; unwilling to relinquish control of color and sound mixing, Atencio conceded a third of the season to a trio of directors.

The men's stay at the Coachlight Motel and R.V. Park in Woodland Park, Colo., ended abruptly on Monday when the authorities apprehended four of them, and a fifth, unwilling to surrender, shot himself to death inside the motor home in which the men were living.

Many, like Margaret Lacey, stayed for a second or third Mass, unwilling to let Father DeVita's ministry end.

Netanyahu at first seemed unwilling to be drawn into a prolonged and bloody conflict over Gaza, offering "quiet for quiet" if Hamas halted its rocket fire.

The pivotal action in the British annexation was the lifetime exile of the then eleven-year-old Maharaja, Duleep Singh, thus making Singh the first (although unwilling) member of the Sikh diaspora.