It is not just a matter of his willingness to keep American troops in Iraq.
It is more a matter of a willingness to push past the clichés of representation into a zone of discomfort so specific that it achieves universality.
In this context, this report, based on research carried out in 2008, deals with a particularly relevant matter: the willingness of young doctors to work outside Budapest (the capital of Hungary).
For that matter, the willingness of foreign governments to join in the fight against such terrorism will itself depend more on public attitudes toward America, thanks to the wave of technologically abetted democratization that the Bush report rightly celebrates and encourages.
I did not detect denial from these elders but rather a matter-of-fact approach to dying and a willingness to discuss it and what it means.
"I think it is just a matter of our own capacity and willingness to take on these issues," said Relang.
But the power of her evocation isn't a matter of impersonation: it's her willingness to imbue a phrase or single word with drawling significance, distending a vowel here, coarsening texture there.
Canada's Mr Harper, for example, did not make his choice as a matter of strict principle: note his willingness to pay enthusiastic visits to China, a far more authoritarian country.
This constituted a lack of willingness to focus on the matter of substance to residents who wanted to stay in Yarloop without being financially disadvantaged by Alcoa's operations.
I love the idea of ideas, and the promise of order and logic applied to a subject which, when viewed from the political lobby, seems too often a matter of naked ambition reinforced by a willingness to spill blood.
