The Irish Tax State and Historical Legacies: Slowly Converging Capacity, Persistent Unwillingness to Pay-- Michelle D'Arcy and Marina Nistotskaya.
The persistent unwillingness to concede that the crunch will affect women more than men because of pre-existing inequalities threatens to cause long-lasting damage to developing economies.
MI5 director general Jonathan Evans's persistent unwillingness to accept that his agency could have thwarted the 7/7 bombers if they had been more on the ball shows the petulance of a losing football manager.
Another failure has been the persistent unwillingness to include Haitians in the planning and execution of projects, leaving them feeling like bystanders in their own country and squandering opportunities to build government ministries and institutions capable of sustaining themselves once the world's attention and donations are gone.
Unfortunately, China's actions in the South China Sea, coupled with its persistent unwillingness to constructively engage its smaller neighbors, seem all too familiar.
Watch out for emails or messages that sound desperate, pleading and persistent in response to your unwillingness to send money.
If this were to persist too long, a young athlete could actually be heading toward burnout (e.g., loss of enjoyment in the activity, lethargic behavior, irritability), anxiety (e.g., sleep disturbances, muscle tension, overwhelming nervousness), and low confidence (e.g., persistent negative narrative, like "I can't do this"; unwillingness to ask for help or connect with teammates/coaches).
Noting persistent high unemployment, the number of mortgage foreclosures, and the unwillingness of banks to lend and businesses to spend, many observers feel the recession will stretch on for years.
Time and again, the review highlights this unwillingness of the fund to challenge European officials as a persistent flaw in its policies, leading to its highly controversial decision to lend money to Greece in 2010, even though economists at the fund believed that the near-bankrupt country had little chance of paying the money back.
The euro-zone crisis is in fact largely due to persistent current-account imbalances between member economies caused by differences in competitiveness, and the unwillingness of the more competitive countries to subsidise the less competitive countries, as would happen between states in America.
After years of festering as a persistent issue, the consumer price sensitivity to high sticker price now translates almost precisely into an unwillingness or perceived inability to pay and assume the debt necessary to graduate.
