Sentence examples for unwilling at from inspiring English sources

"Tenet is unwilling at the moment," an official said.

Unwilling at first to discuss his injury after the match in the interest of not detracting from Ferrer's victory, Nadal gradually became more forthcoming.

Most of the stories are variations on a theme: well-educated, sophisticated parents, unwilling, at first, to recognize a sick and miserable child who needs professional help.

But it appears that Mr. Draghi remains unwilling — at least for now — to violate the ultimate E.C.B. taboo and effectively print money by buying bonds in overwhelming quantities.

"My crib is almost finished in AFRICA," teases Fiddy, unwilling at this stage to say if it is near the country's capital or its famous coastline.

OPEC has been unwilling, at least publicly, to set more modest targets, largely because the budgets of OPEC members rely almost exclusively on high oil prices.

"Steve was virtually the opposition during the early days of the coalition," said Crace, suggesting that Labour was unwilling, or at least unready, to direct any meaningful attacks at the "gloating" Tories in the aftermath of the 2010 election.

None of this prevented his unwilling departure at the end of the 2001-02 seafterafter much-publicised clashes with the orchestral board and the executive director, Deborah Borda.

"I want to sing 'John Brown' in the streets of Charleston," announced one Massachusetts infantry captain to his mother, "and ram red-hot abolition down their unwilling throats at the point of the bayonet".

"It's nice to play someone different, a bit of a vamp", she says of her character, Myra Arundel, an unwilling guest at the country house party from hell hosted by the hectically bohemian Bliss family.

No, not the one that broke out when Sir Nick Houghton, chief of the defence staff, suggested that a prime minister unwilling to at least say he might just press the nuclear button would present a bit of a problem for a deterrent.