This week, at a public rally, he called Austria's relatively popular chancellor, Wolfgang Schüssel, "a madman," only to announce hours later his willingness to consider building another coalition government with him.
Part of that was her then unshakable self-belief: already she would look at the draw for a tournament and see a path through it (she once said to Davenport, a player she always admired, during a coin toss: "Do you want me to serve, or break you?" Later her willingness to comment on her opponents would get her into trouble).
Eight days later, his willingness to see that process through had apparently evaporated.
"YouTube culture has always been founded on meeting up, collaborating and then, later, a willingness to meet fans," Amelia Tait explains.
His own aides, meanwhile, contend that McCain's philosophy has been entirely constant; they say his opposition to limited and ill-defined operations like Somalia and Bosnia wasn't at all inconsistent with his willingness, later, to use overwhelming force against a tyrant like Saddam Hussein.
But later on, his willingness to put the sketch above himself became clearer.
Several months later, 'demonstratedted his willingness to cooperate with DEA by making a controlled buy.
U.S. concessions to China or Russia might presumably ameliorate tensions, but we have seen in Obama's early acquiescence to China's idea of "core interests," and later in his willingness to pursue a "new type of great power relations," -- and in his "reset" to Russia -- that they do not reverse the tide of deepening national identity gaps.
Verbal and printed information was provided to potential participants at a routine antenatal appointment in the first trimester and women were contacted >24 hrs later to ascertain willingness to participate.
The E.C.B. later spelled out its willingness to spend potentially unlimited sums of money buying sovereign bonds.
