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A revival in their investment plans backs up the case that deflation is ending. Non- manufacturers have no choice but to depend on domestic sales and until now they have been reluctant to increase investment because of concern about deflation.

Ryutaro Kono

Pretty much nothing happens when they go to court now. The courts are reluctant to give someone a criminal record because it could hurt them in the future in applying for college or other things.

David Deiuliis

He's going to wind up with a lot of reluctant, unhappy jurors, ... And if they don't want to be there, they may not listen to the evidence. It's dangerous to force people into jury service.

Laurie Levenson

I was very reluctant to take such a recommendation to cabinet. But the do-nothing approach is no longer an option. We have to act on culling as a management option.

Marthinus Van Schalkwyk

Since the election was called the yen has performed pretty well and it may well be the case that people are reluctant to chase it higher.

Jeremy Stretch

Market participants are reluctant to take fresh positions before the release of Jan US non-farm payroll data.

Naomi Hasegawa

Were very much trying to present themselves as reluctant warriors. They were very much reacting to demonstrations of public opinion.

Robin Oakley

We're a little reluctant to accept the program at face value.

Matt Martin

He was very reluctant at first.

John Mara

People are reluctant to change because they see it as a challenge to their authority.

Geoff Smith

The French just seem reluctant to lay off anyone right now.

Tom Rowen

I thought it was extremely compelling. You couldn't have scripted it better -- reluctant general making the case for war.

Chuck Gabriel

The market is being driven by futures-related trading activities. Fund managers are not interested in Hong Kong at the moment and retail investors are reluctant to get into the market ahead of the Chinese New Year.

Sunny Chan

There are a lot of people who would build there if they'd change the flood zone. There are a lot of houses over there that could be renovated, but the banks are reluctant to lend money because of the flood plain.

Annie Mcgee

Perhaps we need to go down there to talk to folks who are reluctant, so that they'll see there are people reaching out to them, who care about them, ... That's the major thing that we need to convey at this point.

Jeffrey Brown

The administration has again and again and again been very beholden to the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance industry, and been very reluctant to move legislation that can really make a difference to people.

Stanley Greenberg

Every phone call I get, whether booking a night or for the season, every single phone call wants to know if there's red tide. We've had a lot of cancellations. A lot of people are reluctant to give deposits.

Jim Mccarthy

The board has generally been very reluctant to dip into the long-term reserve.

Michael Loomis

Our only power is political embarrassment with governments that are reluctant to cooperate with us.

Sarah Ludford

Fishermen are inherently reluctant to put pots in the water without an agreed-upon price. It puts them in a very weak position from a marketing standpoint.

Nick Furman

I was reluctant to take the TV role, ... How does a TV series follow a classic Broadway comedy?

Jack Klugman

I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets. Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs.

Gordon Cooper

I occasionally find myself reluctant to be pulled into a world that's not mine, in the sense that I'm not a religious guy.

Fareed Zakaria

These were very reluctant migrants.

William Frey

A lot of our clients are older and have been trading up in homes, but as their kids move out they're reluctant to 'buy down' because of capital gains. This [provision] is getting a lot of interest.

John W. Gardner

How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given.

Lucian

Mothers are generally reluctant to come. When a mother turns up, she is often a single mother who wants to get evidence to find out the biological father of the child so she can demand compensation.

Cui Yugui

Market participants are reluctant to make bets ahead of the decision at the Bank of Japan policy board meeting today.

Ryutaro Matsuyama

We have similar backgrounds in many instances, ... We have never been reluctant to take on the Establishment, so to speak, and we've been forthright in our objections to the so-called 'Good Ole Boy' network.

Russell Potts

The yield curve is flat and typically when that happens, banks are reluctant to lend money and the economy becomes vulnerable.

Michael Cheah

Tax increases for the school district will have to be put into place. But doing so will make taxpayers reluctant to increase funding through property taxes for general county services.

Paul Tischler

Investors are very reluctant to hold positions in an environment like this. People are anticipating that if the data on consumer sentiment is fairly innocuous, the day could be over at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Marty Cunningham

They are the ones that have no assurances and are reluctant to invest in their homes because they don't know what's going to happen.

Paul Barnes

A lot of guys are reluctant to take positions at this point in time, but you get some people squaring some positions for the month end.

Bruce Latimer

I'm a little reluctant to say 'cure,'.

Paul Miller

While fundamentals are admittedly weak, given the stock's weak recent performance, we are reluctant to get incrementally bearish, particularly ahead of a potential restructuring announcement.

Himanshu Patel

The majority of deer hunters in Pennsylvania are rapidly losing their confidence in the Pennsylvania Game Commission and their current deer management policy. Our whitetail deer herd has been decimated in many areas in the state and the Game Commission seems reluctant to make any changes.

Carl Pardoe

Once in a while people try and track me down. I guess I've been reluctant to talk about it.

Tommy Chaikin

The biggest problem is that you have reluctant sellers. There has not been enough pain yet.

Alex Vallecillo

He sounds to me like the kind of person Nortel needs. A new Nortel CEO should be top-line, sales oriented to sell to people who may be reluctant to use Nortel because of their reputation.

Robert Callander

The dollar was reluctant to follow movements in the equity market, but when the selling became fierce, it started to respond.

Tom Benfer

Eddie was reluctant to do some things the way that everybody else had to do them. I really like Eddie, but changes will have to be made.

John Fote

I love my daughter very much. And she did have a terrible childhood - because it felt that way to her. I feel reluctant to try to diagnose her, even if some might call her bipolar. Yeah, she lied about her childhood and her experience of me.

Linda Carroll

This is good news, because many of the past studies of the effect of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular events looked only at men, so physicians were reluctant to prescribe aspirin for women because there was little data.

Dr. Jeffrey Berger

We were almost reluctant to go that way. But we knew we needed to follow the trend. New country was beginning to cross over into rock, which was creating a new style of music, and it caught on very heavily.

Russ Suemnicht

The Japanese consumer remains reluctant to buy U.S. beef.

Bruce Berven

The Latino community is reluctant to help police officers, but we're out here to tell them this is not an immigration thing.

Antonio Munoz

Reluctant witnesses will not keep us from getting at the truth.

James Greenwood

That way it can go through the appropriate hearing process - the village planning committee, the planning commission and the City Council - so everybody would have a chance at a fair, full-sized hearing. For some reason, they've been reluctant to do that.

Paul Barnes

As a business that's strategy-focused, I regularly experience bias on the part of male clients who appear reluctant to accept that a woman can deliver meaningful contributions. That makes it very challenging for women-owned companies like my own to elevate their visibility.

Beth Zimmerman

From a purely fundamental basis, the market shouldn't be within $20 of the crude price that we're seeing. But people are reluctant to sell.

Aaron Kildow

We were very reluctant to make the move, but we had no choice.

Brian Baker

If you are reluctant to ask the way, you will be lost.

Malayan Proverb

This is slightly baffling, given that existing home sales have been strengthening, ... It may be a reflection of caution on the part of builders, who have been reluctant to keep pace with sales because of fear the market strength will not last.

Ian Shepherdson

It's a good number, but we're reluctant to read much great significance into it.

Hank Cox

There is a push to make boards more diverse but people without large corporate salaries, such as academics, would be reluctant to become directors without guaranteed payment.

Charles Peck

While the U.S. interest rate outlook is supportive of the dollar, people are reluctant to buy it from here because of Japanese GDP. There's also a lot of concern that if commodities continue falling, hedge funds will have to buy back even more yen to unwind their carry trades.

Tsutomu Soma

A lot of parents are very reluctant to share their financial history. They might have a wonderful relationship with their children emotionally, but when it comes to finances, not too many are always ready to talk about that.

Frank Degen

At first I was very reluctant and for about three weeks I was unable to sleep.

Cindy Winstead

Even reluctant individuals are often happily surprised to find that there are others out there just like them.

Chris Segrin

The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.

Anatole Broyard

I've always been reluctant to try and change too much with his swing because he's been successful with it.

Tim Mcdonough

We often face patients who are reluctant to start insulin injections. Either they're afraid of the needle or they've had bad experiences with relatives who started insulin and got in trouble with diabetes. And the reason they got into trouble is they started too late. This product will allow people to start insulin earlier.

Stuart Weiss

People are reluctant to replace all the trees. There's a concern about the cost that's involved.

Bob Grossman

Manufacturers were reluctant to build products without knowing what the standards and timeline would be.

Tom Simmons

The longer it's been since their diagnosis, the more reluctant the kids are to talk about it, ... They know they're not the same person they were before, and it's very upsetting for them.

Paul Fisher

If I'm living in New Orleans, ... and somebody tells me to go to the Superdome, I'd be damned reluctant to go there.

Russell Dynes

I would be reluctant to pay money for two people to find a way to get along.

Bob Evans

It had a huge impact. In most of our cases, the victims are reluctant or afraid to testify.

Victoria Adams

We're seeing a lack of buying, as people are reluctant to establish new positions in a climate of social unrest.

Maureen Mccarthy

What makes local players reluctant to go global is partly the fact that there are no ports that are able to handle direct shipments. The country's exporters are therefore at the mercy of port operators in Singapore and Malaysia.

Oentoro Surya

People are reluctant now to buy stocks with heavy losses. If you have heavy losses, the eagle eyes are out.

Jeffrey R. Hirschkorn

They've done very well with four pace bowlers and I'd be very reluctant to change that.

Rod Marsh

A lot of investors are still unsure which way the market will go and so are reluctant to jump in.

Martin Angel

Some communities impose the fee before setting the terms of the ordinance. Our council is reluctant to do it without having the ordinance in place.

Brent Jensen

Unfortunately, AIDS is one of those issues that because it is so morally complex, governments tend to be very reluctant to respond until the last minute.

Graham Smith

Publicly traded corporations and others with high visibility are reluctant to have their name in a column of contributors to Prop. 75.

Lewis Uhler

In some respects it seems like we're always reluctant to change so I give them credit for being pro-active on this. I guess we'll see how it works out.

Kent Mueller

They're ready-made victims. They're reluctant to go to the police. They speak very little English. What little cash they have, they keep on their persons or in their homes.

Vernon Keenan

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

Frantz Fanon

For whatever reason, the national gurus are reluctant to come into Chicago to see kids play. They have no idea how good many of the top teams in Chicago really are.

Roy Schmidt

Investors will be reluctant to try (to push shares) higher as they wait for more information on the outlook for US and Japanese monetary policy.

Masayoshi Yano

And there's another very big problem. Television broadcasters are very reluctant to air them.

David Linde

The problem we?re having with the department is that they are reluctant to provide us with the information we need to carry out our investigations.

Bernard Richard

Yesterday central bank tried to intervene and sell (dollars) at 1,186.00 but people were reluctant to buy.

Amina Muhaji

One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are.

Harold Hughes

As anybody in the United States is aware, the skyrocketing costs of health care are at crisis proportions. The union has been very reluctant to pay any of that.

Richard Maloney

Some people will have fears over automated farming, and be reluctant to use it. However, robotics is still going to happen; it's a natural progression of current technology, and farmers are going to use it whenever it can benefit them.

Tony Grift

We're excited about playing Dartmouth coming off their first league championship. We're a little bit reluctant to play on St. Patrick's Day against a team that calls themselves the Big Green.

Ted Donato

Traditionally, in previous evacuations, Sabine Pass residents have been reluctant to leave.

John Owens

The government was very reluctant to take a position because it's a very delicate situation, but now they are really turning the pressure on.

Lorenzo Codogno

I was one of the reluctant votes there. Ultimately, I think marketing downtown should be privatized.

Frank Walker

People are reluctant to trade in their phones for the upgrades, saying they're used to their old phones.

Terry Whitham

Investors are reluctant to buy bonds before the price report and the BOJ meeting. I see a more than 50 percent chance for a policy shift next week.

Yasunori Kuroda

It's tough when a lead in a game gets in the 10-, 12-point range. You're reluctant to go. But you can always come back.

Mike Aresco

We wouldn't be surprised that some ISPs would be reluctant to accept this--part of the reason many have been proactive in blocking spam has been to avoid legislation, and they have made heroic efforts. The problem is, as long as there's not a level playing field, we will have ISPs that court spammers, and we all suffer.

Susan Schorr

AOL has been pursuing a multiple portal strategy. Netscape has been reluctant to realize that they're really a media company...here's competition at its finest, with AOL slashing up Netscape for its real key assets.

Adam Schoenfeld

There will be some things that are different that all college coaches go through when they get to the NFL. Spurrier comes to mind, and some of the adjustments he was forced to make and was reluctant to make at various times,'' Aikman said.

Norm Chow

At first I was reluctant. I thought I didn't really need it, but after the first class I realized that I didn't know as much as I thought I did.

Matthew Clark

There is a very strong chance we'll see a rate hike in Slovakia. On top of that, the central bank will be very reluctant to see any currency weakness as it wants to curb inflation.

Jon Harrison

Low-cost carriers are reluctant to jump into the international arena. It requires long planning horizons, sometimes years of diplomacy.

Joseph Schwieterman

He cares deeply about it in a personal way and has been one of the least reluctant among CEOs to talk about it in a meaningful way.

Eileen Claussen