Sentence examples for loath to challenge from inspiring English sources

Yet people are loath to challenge experts.

Mr Vaz said parliamentary committees were once loath to challenge governments partly as members were often hoping to get ministerial posts.

More than just merely being loath to challenge these interests, many members of Congress, including some from the president's own party, have championed them.

After the families left the brunch place, I spoke with the staff, who seemed loath to challenge their clientele, preferring a cleaning detail to a loss of business, especially in these tough economic times.

While most other powerful social institutions, both public and private, must answer to an array of politicians, consumers, lawyers, inspectors general and organized pressure groups, the Ivies retain an aristocratic autonomy that the public seems loath to challenge or to second-guess.

But the officials said they were loath to publicly challenge an ally's version of the downing, which the White House and the State Department have condemned as unjustified and have cited as an example of the recklessness of the security forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.

Fifth set: Federer* 6-3, 7-6, 4-6, 4-6, 1-2 Tsonga "Loath though I am to challenge the Naylor," writes Greg Phillips, another North Catrolina correspondent, "Ali was 36 and out of condition when he fought Spinks the first time.

Loath to marry, she challenges suitors to a race: he who beats her wins her hand; he who fails loses his life.

Although he has long had an adversarial relationship with Iran's current supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, his insider status makes him loath to mount a real challenge to the core institutions of the Islamic republic.

"How comes the devil then to be so loath to have any testimony born against you?" Stoughton challenged.

Other factors including labor disputes, weather and a cooled national economy come into play in the fluctuating passenger numbers, and competitors are loath to admit that they blinked in the face of Southwest's challenge.