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noun
A pausing or halting before beginning a task, often as a result of some fear or uncertainty about the outcome.
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This view has led to hesitancy about official intervention: If markets are fundamentally efficient and fair, there is little that even the best of governments could do to improve matters.
The Guide to Tailoring Immunization Programmes (TIP), an evidence and theory based behavioral insight framework, issued in 2013, provides tools to (1) identify vaccine hesitant population subgroups, (2) diagnose their demand- and supply-side immunization barriers and enablers and (3) design evidence-informed responses to hesitancy appropriate to the subgroup setting, context and vaccine.
Claiming that the new material was not like "the Cherry Poppin' Daddies people know and love", the label did little to promote either the album or its glam-styled single "Diamond Light Boogie", at one point releasing the latter without the band's name on it, allegedly due to hesitancy over marketing a rock single from a band primarily known for swing music.
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Referring to his hesitancy to reach out to an ill-appearing HIV orphan, one teacher stated, " You cannot come out and say that I have seen this [infection] in you.
Pierre Naquin, Art Exchange's founder, points to investors' hesitancy to entrust their money to a start-up as one reason for its troubles.
Fear of side effects is reported [ 24, 32] and the presence of co-morbidities has also been described as contributing to patient hesitancy to take medication, in addition, again to suboptimal communication around prescriptions [ 34].
The shocking increase has been attributed to a hesitancy to jump from opaques in the winter months to bare legs in the spring, as nude stockings offer an in-between of sorts.
Marvin Minsky, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology known for his work spanning electrical engineering, computer science, new media and artificial intelligence, takes an ironist's view to consumer hesitancy to embrace smart appliances.
A physician's desire to avoid conflict and a reluctance to accept treatment 'failure' contributes to this hesitancy.
He ascribes the lack of interest to a hesitancy among longtime renters to buy and dismisses suggestions that Antares misread the market.
However, there appears to be some hesitancy to use vacuum distillation columns, particularly in azeotropic separations.
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