Sentence examples for long reluctant from inspiring English sources

Banks were long reluctant to lend to the poor.

So cost-conscious clients may now be able to sway long reluctant partners to accept alternatives.

The megacarriers from the Persian Gulf, long reluctant to join in the alliance game, have also entered the fray lately.

It is the first subpoena the committee has announced in the course of its Russia investigation — a step Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C). was long reluctant to take.

And the CIA and the FBI, long reluctant allies, have been told to work together.Britain's intelligence service is much smaller than America's and heavily reliant on it, especially for high-tech data.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani military, long reluctant to heed American urging that it attack Pakistani militant groups in their main base in North Waziristan, is coming around to the idea that it must do so, in its own interests.

But life-long reluctant fliers like Deborah Yost now have far fewer reasons to apologize for their white-knuckle behavior.

Ms. Ortiz had long been reluctant to implicate Mr. Espada.

The military had long been reluctant to address corruption.

Stephen Curry has long been reluctant to speak out.

India, which has over 200m farmers, has long been reluctant to expose them to international competition.