Sentence examples for reluctant steps from inspiring English sources

From air quality, to recycling and climate change, we see only slow, reluctant steps.

So how much more could and should the federal government be doing?The Federal Reserve's bail-out of Bear Stearns and the Bush administration's takeover of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the insurance group AIG were reluctant steps to stem the damage; the line was drawn at saving Lehman Brothers.

It is quite another to detail the slow, inexorable, reluctant steps by which our heroine separates from her husband and her beloved son, attaches herself to the shiftless Prince Vronsky, suffers ostracism and disgrace -- until at last she flings herself under the wheels of an onrushing train.

The response of the multitude at the Fifa congress in Zurich illuminates the reason why Platini has, step by reluctant step, finally withdrawn from his planned attainment of the top administration post.

Jones pulls on the rope until the foal takes a reluctant step forward.

On the surface, Miller's statement seems like a final, reluctant step in a multi-year attempt Trump has made to raise doubts about Obama; the real estate mogul just now accepting the current president's Hawaiian birth under the intense pressure of his own campaign. .

But increasingly there are areas of the world where no balance of power operates, unless a reluctant America steps in, as in the Gulf or parts of Asia.

And people new to education philanthropy are typically going to be very reluctant to step onto the third rail with their very first step.

Academy chains and sponsors have proven remarkably reluctant to step in so far.

But she was plainly reluctant to step into a domestic political tussle.

Physicians are reluctant to step in to play God and deny the support.