Sentence examples for hesitant responses from inspiring English sources

There are poor telephone connections, hesitant responses to letters which Alfred had thought were sharp and interesting.

Mr. Wagoner's detailed, hesitant responses to lawmakers led some of them to conclude that G.M.'s problems were so vast that a bankruptcy filing was the only realistic solution.

— Representative Paul D. Ryan, the Republican vice presidential nominee, slammed President Obama's handling of the economy on Monday, seizing on hesitant responses by Mr. Obama's top strategists when asked whether the country was better off than it was four years ago.

The International Monetary Fund has warned European leaders that their hesitant response to Greece's debt crisis risks triggering the world's second global financial meltdown in three years.

To Bill Richardson: "Do you think homosexuality is a choice or is it biological?" (Mr. Richardson's hesitant response became the pre-eminent headline of the forum).

But what came across strongest today was her impatience with the slow and hesitant response of Israelis and Palestinians to the American call for courage and leadership.

The hesitant response to the latest and most dangerous turn in the crisis illustrates how political constraints are making it ever harder for Europe to find effective solutions.

Jack Straw's hesitant response to the discovery of Konrad Kalejs, a Latvian war crimes suspect, in an old people's home in December 1999 underlined fears that lack of evidence was not unrelated to absence of political will.

That debacle and the hesitant response to it in Washington -- several days of teleconferences among officials of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon and the National Security Council but no action, no decisions -- demonstrate yet again that doing good in Africa takes more than good intentions.

With Democrats and Republicans caustically criticizing the performance of his agency, and with the White House under increasing attack for populating FEMA's top ranks with politically connected officials who lack disaster relief experience, Mr. Brown had become a symbol of President Bush's own hesitant response.

Dr. ElBaradei, whose doctorate, from New York University, is in international law, directed much of his anger at the West, faulting the United States and others for what he described as a hesitant response to a popular uprising demanding freedom, human rights and the rule of law.