Sentence examples for sheer willingness from inspiring English sources

RAND anyway puts too much emphasis on education as compared with other resources, such as sheer willingness to work.

Their raw emotion coupled with our sheer willingness to celebrate almost anything is a recipe for a summer night to remember.

And a "surprising level of sheer willingness to stay together" was finally reported, on August 3rd, by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury after nearly three weeks of well-choreographed confraternity in which participants took no votes and made no firm decisions.

"I think we've emerged at the end of this conference with some quite surprising results: a surprising level of sheer willingness to stay together, and a surprising level of agreement about what might be necessary to make that happen," he said.

It yields violence and injustice in the name of religion that is in truth the sheer willingness to commit moral atrocities in the name of the state, hiding behind an illusory cloak of religious piety.

And that's more or less what she continued doing throughout her life — swindling thousands (millions, in today's terms) through sheer audacity and a willingness to take advantage of the lax banking practices of the time.

In stark contrast to the in-service nurses, we observed that despite not being actively involved in performing CPR, the preservice nurses by their sheer self-motivation and willingness to learn retained the skills learnt during the training session better than the staff nurses.

The Patti LuPone we meet in these pages has earned her reputation as a diva (in the benign sense) through her big talent, willingness to take risks and sheer persistence, and her reputation as a diva (in the less benign sense) more out of nerves, actorly integrity and ill fortune than blinkered egotism.

We've started shopping at farmers markets and buying organic food, and national statistics reflect our willingness to prioritize sustainability over sheer convenience.

The Weiner campaign, which presented itself as a redemption narrative and then turned, last week, into what Nancy Pelosi called a public therapy session, now appears to be an act of sheer exhibitionism, driven by nothing but the candidate's willingness to make a spectacle of himself.

Eden Hazard and Divock Origi were a pair of nuisances and their willingness to run at their opponents, and sheer athletic ability, caused the US problems throughout the 120 minutes.