Sentence examples for little readiness from inspiring English sources

But for a university that considers itself the Harvard of the north, McGill's administrators have shown little readiness to listen to reason.

But so far Jean-Pierre Raffarin's government has shown little readiness to give much ground.See article: France's trade unions challenge pensions reformSuicide attackers drove a truck laden with explosives into a complex of government offices in Znamenskoye, in northern Chechnya.

Among them is Clark's underlying assessment that despite the annual expenditure of several hundred billion dollars, the American military has little readiness or preparation for the very messy regional conflicts it is now most likely to fight.

Mr Bush's message to China this week was that the more China threatens Taiwan, the closer America will stand by it.Listen and learnThe message from Taiwan's voters, who show little support for declaring independence, but little readiness to be swallowed up by the mainland either, has been equally clear.

The spread of such high-interest lending is one more token of the broadening gap between the very rich and the very poor in Britain as austerity measures pare away benefits payments while conventional banks show little readiness to lend, even to those with sound credit ratings.

And the new president shows little readiness to come to terms with the rebellious Chechens, still reeling from Mr Putin's brutal war against them.More disturbing still are the signs that Mr Putin, a former KGB spy, holds civil rights in contempt, believing that an iron hand is required to bring order to the country and that it should not be unduly fettered by democratic constraints.

Patients with SCD who had previously transitioned to adult health care reported that they received little preparation and that the transition was based strictly on age rather than readiness or need [ 52].

I was struck, and perhaps disquieted a little, by the readiness with which Spalding was prepared to turn the horrifying events of the summer to creative use.

However, these first steps, which are being celebrated with ceremonies in each of the places where Afghans take over, test very little about the readiness of the country's forces.

This is because there is little information on readiness to use technology for people with psychosis, who may have had educational opportunities limited by the early onset of their symptoms [ 12, 17].

He offers little else beyond a readiness to talk.