Sentence examples for grudgingly considered from inspiring English sources

As the company, which is based in Chicago, bleeds billions of dollars each year and tries to avoid issuing itself a ticket to bankruptcy court, its unions have only grudgingly considered management's cost-cutting demands.

But diplomats are grudgingly considering Washington's positions because they realize the United Nations cannot effectively exist without the United States.

Although Mr. McGreevey has expressed reservations about the idea in the past, he has grudgingly begun considering it, his staff members say, because the plan could raise more than $200 million.

And many businesses have only recently, and grudgingly, begun to consider their options.

But Orwell also admired Kipling; O'Connor considered him, albeit grudgingly, one of the great short-story writers; Raine calls him England's "greatest short-story writer … whose achievement is more complex and surprising than even his admirers recognise".

But the form of merit pay he supports is closer to what the teachers' union has grudgingly been willing to consider than to what the mayor wants.

Mr. Haggard and Mr. Noland report that disproportionate numbers of women are now being laid off from jobs at North Korea's state-owned enterprises because "working for the state is considered more politically advanced 'man's work.' " As a result, women have moved into the markets, which are closed to men and operate quasi-legally in North Korea's grudgingly hybrid economy.

Top Republican strategists in Washington grudgingly credit Mr. Bennet with running what they consider to be one of the best Democratic campaigns of the year, saying he has been surprisingly effective in distancing himself from the White House since the primary in August and positioning himself as an outsider on spending issues even though he is technically the incumbent.

But many grudgingly admit that he has brought attention and sponsorship to what they consider a sport.

While Republicans consider much of the legislation flawed and even harmful, they grudgingly concede that Democrats compiled a record perhaps unrivaled since the Great Society programs of President Lyndon B. Johnson were passed during the 89th Congress or the New Deal programs were pushed through the 73rd Congress by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Trachsel grudgingly admitted that he realized he had not allowed a hit, but did not want to consider what it would take to complete the no-hitter.