Sentence examples for own unwillingness from inspiring English sources

It's the height of irony: the presumed transformative president is stymied by his own unwillingness to be transformed.

A.I.G. said premiums had slowed because of the recession and its own unwillingness to lower prices too much.

But there was something cathartic about seeing the show address, with pride and self-loathing, its own unwillingness to be easily loved.

Many countries, including the United States, are understandably embarrassed by their own unwillingness to act in the face of a death toll that is now approaching 10,000.

But his own unwillingness to discern shadings among those with whom he disagrees suggests that "authentic" Zionism lies in the eye of the beholder.

Carrey reveres the mythology that surrounds Kaufman's risk-taking, and seems to lament his own unwillingness to take things as far.

It's a story I will want to return to, hoping to grasp its implications for my own willingness or unwillingness to change.

Even so, Republicans in the House took issue with the College Board report, saying it let universities "off the hook" by focusing on factors colleges could not control, rather than on their own mismanagement and unwillingness to cut costs.

People close to Mr. Corzine say his outspokenness on these issues reflects what his increasing frustration with his own party's unwillingness to take bold steps to distinguish itself from the Republicans.

Private campaign commitments to contributors, a tendency to avoid having to resolve a conflict between two well-informed and opposing forces, ignorance of the views of inarticulate and timid persons, personal biases toward one's own peer group, unwillingness to disclose one's own mistakes, and sometimes more scurrilous motives — all these tempt an officeholder to be secretive and exclusionary.

"The problem was not in the concepts," he said, referring to the 2008 law, "but in the language Congress chose to implement the concepts, combined with the agency's own inability and unwillingness to exert authority to clarify confusion and chaos in a common-sense manner".