Sentence examples for while eager to from inspiring English sources

Reluctant to ruffle feathers while eager to be seen as "doing something," they increasingly embrace the same subterfuge.

While eager to condemn the public sector strikes ("absolute shit"), he is more circumspect about the rioters.

Banking trade groups, while eager to see further details, said on Tuesday that they were cautiously supportive of the plans.

But others say that, while eager to mend the partnership, they are looking at possibly deeper changes in the future.

We are meeting the morning after the first presidential debate and Wahlberg, while eager to watch the highlights, refuses to say who he will be voting for.

But companies, while eager to save money by becoming more energy efficient, remain reluctant to spend money on low-carbon energy so long as fossil fuels remain cheaper.

All the while, he was eager to beef up the company's content arsenal, something Comcast attempted to do with its failed $54 billion hostile bid for Burke's former employer in 2004.

The White House was conspicuously reluctant to write off an old ally, while eager also to be seen to support the principle of democracy.

And The Post, while not eager to see him go, was willing to move heaven — but not earth — to keep him, according to some in the newsroom.

In part, this is probably because Mr. Obama, while seemingly eager to read from a populist script, is really too cool and contemplative to be terribly convincing in the role.

Patients anxious for a cure may engage in a kind of selective hearing, taking in only to information about potential benefits, while researchers eager to sign up study volunteers may gloss over the risks.