Sentence examples for willing at first from inspiring English sources

The executives said they had been willing at first to overlook Ms. McGriff's inexperience and increasingly grandiose plans.

When King Zahir Shah of Afghanistan was overthrown in 1973 by his cousin Mohammad Daud, the new government appeared willing at first to do Moscow's bidding.

The rental market, Jacobs claims, is potentially three or four times the size of the market for boat purchases: People are more willing at first to try than to buy.

The swain who materialized had certain advantages: Chuck Mitchell was an American musician, well connected in the Detroit folk scene, and, at first, willing to adopt her child.

Velrada, the data company responsible for building the platform used by Rio Tinto to remotely track trains, autonomous trucks and drill positions, was at first willing to discuss its role in providing similar capability to the Sodexo contract but withdrew from the scheduled interview at the last minute, citing pressure from Sodexo.

"The YC ecosystem was just more willing to trust us at first, which let us build up a data set to prove this process works and get to a scale where Facebook/Apple, etc. were willing to take a shot".  .

By continuing to try new thing and being willing to be uncomfortable at first, writing led to speaking.

In Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles attempts to work these inconsistencies into a coherent whole: Ismene explains that, in light of their tainted family lineage, her brothers were at first willing to cede the throne to Creon.

Some years back, when administrators at a group of Los Angeles charter schools ordered the entire instructional staff to cheat on state standardized tests, the charter division at the Los Angeles Unified School District was at first willing to forgive what had happened and move on. .

While he is at first willing to destroy the Na'vi civilization to preserve the company's bottom line, he is reluctant to authorize the attacks on the Na'vi and taint his image, doing so only after Quaritch persuades him that it is necessary, and the attacks will be humane.

Few publications were willing to publish his work at first.