Sentence examples for were willing in from inspiring English sources

Nureyev's friends felt sorry for him, and they were willing, in his last days, to let him use up their good will, their patience, their money.

Few banks, including ones in Europe, were willing in January to risk being accused of violating the sanctions by facilitating the $400 million payment.

In every case, the parents were willing in spirit, but all expressed the sensation of a sinking heart at the idea of a chaotic kitchen that needed to be cleared up afterwards.

Everyone is pretty malleable these days: 67percentt of female heads of household between 18 and 34 were willing, in a Nielsen study, to try a new brand even if it went against their customary buying habits; the corresponding number in the 35-to-64 35-to-64 35-to-640 percent.

In other words, some members of the Democratic leadership — Congress has been under Democratic control since the 2006 elections — were willing, in secret, to go along with the Administration in expanding covert activities directed at Iran, while the Party's presumptive candidate for President, Barack Obama, has said that he favors direct talks and diplomacy.

What I was unprepared for when I arrived in Washington and it took me a good while to figure out is that the Republicans were willing, in the middle of the worst economic crisis of our lifetime, to put their short-term political interests ahead of what was good for the country.

Thus even they will at some point be willing (in Kant's famous phrase) to "deny knowledge in order to leave room for faith".

Still, it is critical that they be willing, in the right circumstances, to do so.

"We're willing, in knowing that, to pick up the attending consequences".

More often, he said, it is the opposite case, where help is willing in spirit, but impossible in practice.

"I think the governor is willing, in today's climate, to take itty-bitty steps," Representative Price said.