Sentence examples for significant reluctance from inspiring English sources

Some officials said that the president's questions had created significant reluctance to act in the Senate, because lawmakers do not want to get too far out in front of the administration if the president ultimately is not going to back the tax.

"There is significant reluctance within the E.P.A. and Justice Department to bring actions against municipalities, because there's a view that they are often cash-strapped, and fines would ultimately be paid by local taxpayers," said David Uhlmann, who headed the environmental crimes division at the Justice Department until 2007.

In this context, a well established, secure, face-to-face proctored assessment process capable of processing very large numbers of students is in place, and there was significant reluctance to move away from this model.

However, physician-evaluation for the validation exercise required travel to a local health-care facility, and there was significant reluctance among invited participants, especially within the urban population, to make this effort.

Nevertheless, there is significant reluctance to countenance biomedical moral enhancement.

"There is a significant social reluctance by local Emirati families to allow their daughters to go into nursing".

The need to overcome significant community reluctance to engage in discussion of mental health resulted in significant modification of the protocol.

When probed further, they cited fear/anxiety as a significant factor for reluctance to participate; fear of a cancer diagnosis, of pelvic examination and of community gossip and perception (unpublished data).

African American race remained a significant predictor of reluctance to add more medications even within the fully adjusted model (2.48 [1.32–4.69]; P < 0.01).

The requirement for only a single injection per day is a great advantage of this treatment option, which is significant considering the reluctance of patients and clinicians alike to initiate insulin therapy [ 10– 10].

What he says is important, but he doesn't mention a significant factor in the reluctance of both men and women who were abused as children to come forward.