Sentence examples for once eager to from inspiring English sources
Western investors were once eager to buy into Chinese companies that had secured listings on American exchanges.
Washington, once eager to bolster the presence of big Western oil companies as a way to trim the power of Russia, has receded on that front, too.
The filmmakers themselves seem caught between the two versions, at once eager to disclaim any moralistic intentions and unwilling to embrace amoralism outright.
Once eager to learn from the United States, China's leaders during the financial crisis have reaffirmed their faith in their own more statist approach to economic management, in which private capitalism plays only a supporting role.
The collapse of Enron, the giant energy trading company -- and the prospect of an energy glut in many parts of the country -- has frightened investors who were once eager to pour money into power plant projects.
It is fairly astounding to hear conservatives who were once eager to invade Iraq — ostensibly to plant freedom in the region — now giving up so quickly on fledgling democracies that might actually be won over without 10 bloody years of occupation.
Doctors, once so eager to perform autopsies that they stole bodies, have simply stopped asking.
Yet foreign businesses and investors, once increasingly eager to tap that stunning growth, have started looking elsewhere.
Once so eager to please, Mr Blair no longer cares very much what people think of him.
This week, Young's descendants will welcome a world the church's founders once feared, eager to take Utah into the mainstream and onto the world stage.
The man once so eager to proclaim his macho credentials now dimplingly proclaims on stage that it wasn't Kylie he fancied in Neighbours but - er - Scott.
