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But it would not be surprising if some of his lieutenants were less eager to quell Afghanistan's insurgency.

(Heirs were less eager to speak on the record for fear of further straining family ties or because the subject was too laden with emotion).

As business travel and tourism increased in recent years, Ms. Kroll said, hotels were less eager to set aside entire floors for exhibitors.

Most European countries said they agreed with Washington's assessment, but they were less eager to join the United States in supplying weapons to the rebels.

In a series of studies, Dr. Nisbett and Dr. Kaiping Peng of the University of California at Berkeley found that Chinese subjects were less eager to resolve contradictions in a variety of situations than American subjects.

The plan was to show unsuspecting commuters one followed by the other, to test a theory that might have seemed self-evident: men were happy to be seen as special, but they were less eager to talk about their sperm.

It was less eager to show off other features.

(They are less eager to engage on "wedge issues" like abortion).

He's less eager to discuss the past, when that same journey took 30 days.

Ironically, USRTK is less eager to reveal its own agenda and funding.

But in the woods behind Pathmark is a world that people are less eager to leave.