Sentence examples for merely willing from inspiring English sources

But it is unclear whether the guerrillas are merely willing to hold their fire or to hand over their weapons entirely which the government will almost certainly demand, since the FARC used the last ceasefire, in 1999, to regroup before returning to terrorism.

The most successful wealth builders are the ones who're merely willing to learn.

We need leadership that is not merely willing to talk, but to listen, too.

If Corker were merely willing to hear out Democratic concerns, he would be a good-natured chairman but probably not a successful one.

For even though it is intrinsically possible for y to determine whether or not s will occur, x, merely by willing s, makes it impossible for y to will not-s.

The politesse, the pointing up of sweetness, and the ascribing of "entire indifference" to the child evoke the classic stratagems of the pedophile, planning his campaign and convincing others (and, more important, himself) that he is doing no wrong — that there is no victim but merely a willing collaborator.

From now on, they would no longer be willing merely to stand and be counted, like bodies.

It claims that it is merely benefiting customers willing to enter into long-term deals by giving them discounted aeroplanes and a favoured place in the queue for delivery when the industry is booming (as it is now).

Most of the students we have talked to who made the trip to Washington told us that there seemed to be an agreement among those scores of thousands gathered in the Ellipse on that steamy Saturday that this would be the last rally; from now on, they said, they would no longer be willing merely to stand and be counted, like bodies.

Kirsch also believed that "with Fleming, ... we do not merely accept the willing suspension of disbelief, we yearn for it, we hunger for it".

Today's restaurateurs are merely prospectors, the willing few happy to mop the blood off their floors until the place is safe enough to put a Wagamama in.