The Swedish government, however, reluctantly refused to honour the king's pledge.
Last September, Roy Moore, the chief justice of Alabama, said sentencing laws needed to be changed in the state in light of Brooker's plight, after the state's supreme court reluctantly refused to overturn an appeal to the man's sentence.
He granted an interview only reluctantly and refused to be photographed.
Public health research reluctantly acknowledges that rational parents may refuse to vaccinate their kids.
The sisters refuse official help but the Mother in charge reluctantly accepts Mathilde's offer to nurse the women secretly through their pregnancy.
But after I ticked down a roster of friends, all of whom flat-out refused, Thomas reluctantly agreed to come along.
Obama said he acted reluctantly after House Republicans refused that year to vote on a Senate-approved bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill.
When Campbell went professional, rather reluctantly – his employers having refused to let him have two weeks off for the group to perform at the Edinburgh festival – some on the left, who had regarded him as a genuine proletarian singer, thought he had sold out by going commercial, and spurned him.
Although his mother refuses, he reluctantly takes the money and gives it to Nirmala's father.
His brother refuses, but reluctantly signs after Eko says that his two friends will burn the church to the ground if Yemi does not collaborate.
The England manager's job is made more complex by his dependence on the co-operation of clubs and their managers in releasing players for friendlies, and "club versus country" conflict is said to have happened when permission is refused, given reluctantly, or negotiated.
