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What utilities are looking for and the public surrounding those plants are looking for is a clear signal that the fuel is eventually going to move from those sites. Absent that, there may be some reluctance to continue to pursue the applications.

Adrian Heymer

I think it was just a general reluctance to change. But the coaches were able to communicate with their athletic directors why this rule made sense. Then it gained more and more support.

Jim Haney

There's been a reluctance in the government to be dependent on the Danish People's Party, and they are interested in freeing themselves of that tie.

Lars Bille

The government's reluctance to work out schemes to promote pottery also makes us feel vulnerable.

Ram Kumar

This is not a problem that we can turn away from, ... We must be prepared to face it. We must not let the sensible reluctance to fight drive us into wishful thinking.

Richard Armitage

We have no reluctance to sue the federal government. Our involvement will be based on how we feel about the legal analysis and whether we think there is value added to having Vermont's name on it.

William Sorrell

One of the reasons there is reluctance among business users is that they have higher priorities.

Lisa Pierce

A number of companies are going to be looking at continuing a presence there with real reluctance. State governments are going to have to figure out incentives and guarantees to minimize departures.

Donald Light

I don't doubt that some (adult Web site operators) would like to get some money, but Wall Street has a natural sort of reluctance to get involved in adult entertainment.

Adam Schoenfeld

There has been a reluctance for the Government to do big reforms because the amount of money has been underestimated.

Michael Potter

I should love to do a novel... about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.

Patricia Highsmith

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.

Rodney Alexander

The biggest hurdle is those that have relevant information may be afraid to come forward, ... PC makers may have a lot of useful information, but if they rely on Microsoft, there may be some reluctance to come forward. Hopefully, this will show the government is serious and those companies will go forward.

Kevin Arquit

There's a reluctance to outright ban them, because kids have them, and parents want to know where they are. There's a recognition that the cell phone - love it or hate it - is an aspect of contemporary life.

Dan Walters

There is a sudden reluctance on the part of the prosecution to accord the accused persons their right of a fair and speedy trial.

David Mpanga

We are growing weary of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's reluctance to establish any sort of policy against athlete violence.

Kathy Redmond

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

Ogden Nash

It's a natural and well-expected reluctance.

Kathy Walt

International NGOs are there to level the playing field and build capacity. But I sense a real reluctance among some NGOs to do that.

Michael Edwards

Ethics can get forgotten as other nations and private companies race to fill the void left by the president's reluctance to fund stem cell research. Only a properly funded U.S. stem cell research program will guarantee oversight and the protection of all involved.

Glenn Mcgee

The problems we are having right now getting any kind of ambition in the market access area is an indicator of the reluctance of the rest of the world to go in that direction.

Bob Stallman

Employers may have some reluctance to hire people in their 50s because there may be a perception that they are less energetic and therefore less productive than younger people.

Paul Chan

I shared with the board of directors ... that, with the deepest reluctance and if the board so desired, I would submit my resignation.

Richard Grasso

There is probably a little bit of reluctance to make big commitments going into the employment report.

Paul Cherney

They met their own lowered targets. What is worrying is their reluctance to spell out where the market is going.

Chris Doyle

I think, initially, there was some reluctance to be singled out for practices that had led to some dramatic improvement in student performance. And some people just don't like being in the spotlight.

Superintendent Edwin Diaz

If they showed reluctance, they would intimidate people and talk about breaking the law or they'd be asphyxiated by carbon monoxide or they'd call the National Fire Protection Association.

Bob Clifford

The vast majority of recent comments by ECB officials showed a true reluctance to intervene.

Bob Lynch

So if Congress is going to be on the hook for this, there is reluctance to go with a tunnel.

Mike Shields

MARTYR, n. One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.

Ambrose Bierce

There's always a reluctance to stand behind a positive agenda for fear it will give ammunition to the other side.

John Pitney

We have some reluctance because we believe the details are terribly important. We believe quite clearly this plan is not the final solution, because it still does rely very heavily on people driving their cars, and there are still going to be too many industrial facilities in the park.

Carl Pope

I think the players realized that (advertiser reluctance).

Jeff Chown

This isn't a security story. This is really a story about how the music industry is dealing with its former reluctance to work with the Internet.

Eric Hemmendinger

Speaking for myself I took office with reluctance, I will have it with pleasure, & while I am obliged to hold it my effort will be, as it has been, to do the thing that is right according to my lights.

Edward Blake