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We have just digested so much news in the last week or so, ... Fourth-quarter earnings have been much better than expected, but you have people reluctant to make big bets ahead of things like the payroll report Friday, or the G7 meeting, which will be important for the dollar.

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.

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

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.

We are pleased that Ohio regulations have been changed to allow Hospice and PASSPORT services to be offered together. Previously, many PASSPORT consumers were reluctant to give up the vital services offered by PASSPORT in order to receive much-needed Hospice care. Now we can offer these patients all of the services they need.

We are reluctant to talk because of significant fear of retaliation, being disciplined or fired.

We were kind of reluctant to go with someone who ran a soup company or something like that, but he has wide exposure to us and our competitors, he knows the business and he knows what has to be done.

The demand for professional pet care services is at an all-time high -- especially those that allow pets to maintain their routine while receiving the attention they need. With many pet owners frustrated by the lack of professional and reliable caregivers, or reluctant to kennel their pets due to health and other concerns, our safe, convenient, and nurturing care provides peace of mind.

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

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.

We called people and tried to schedule games with some of the top people. Some of those teams are a little reluctant to play a team that is on the rise.

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

We were worried about our chemistry, and we were reluctant to make changes because we were winning. But we wanted to put what we thought was the best team out on the field. We're just trying to put the team first, and the girls have accepted all of the changes really well.

We have been reluctant to put too many Nabi dollars into it. We have been fortunate that there has been adequate public interest.

We were reluctant to (go). We went out, watched it and it did bring us together. (The team in the movie) didn't do well at the beginning, but after hard work and discipline, they decided to come together. That's exactly what happened for us.

We were relying on Kobe and Kobe couldn't shoot the ball because of a hand injury. He was just reluctant to shoot.

There basically is an absence of sellers in the market. It seems the market is a little ahead of itself, but people are reluctant to sell. People are still putting money to work here in the market.

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.

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.

We're looking for a slingshot effect. If we win this primary or have a very, very strong showing, the Washington caucus-goers will be reluctant to reject the will of the people. It will be a signal to California and the rest of the country that he is viable and this thing is not wrapped up.

Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

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

We're starting to see some evidence of slowdown in the U.S., which is going to be a risk for us. The biggest concern is the oil price and foreign investors who have been buying Japan may be reluctant to buy from here.

We're still reluctant to buy into these stocks, even if they fall considerably. They might have turned the corner in the broadest sense, but the balance sheets are very stretched.

What makes AIDS hard to deal with is the remaining prejudice and unreasonable fear. Even today, 20 years after the epidemic started, a number of people have still not been personally affected and remain uninformed and reluctant to address the issue seriously.

We find consumers very reluctant to pay for new services at all. Corporations are more willing to pay for new services. And from corporations, come consumers who have gotten used to using the services at work.

We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences.

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.

At this point, one day after the elections I'm reluctant to be drawn into a discussion of specific measures, specific actions when we're at such, frankly, a beginning stage in all this.

Copper prices fell because processors are reluctant to buy now, and demand on the spot market is not as strong as we'd expected.

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.

At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite a few elderly farmers and put me in touch with four or five of them who had been in camps during WWII. Some, like my father, were reluctant to talk about their experiences.

I've been very reluctant to get into numbers.

The strengthening trend is very much intact. I'd be very reluctant to buck the trend. It's very much driven by the commodities, with platinum approaching $1,000.

There are a lot of things Steven can do, but he's reluctant to do them in games. He needs to not worry about missing shots.

an international bureaucracy that is reluctant to even criticize China, much less sanction it.

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.

'The Red' is the first book in a trilogy that gained a big following as a self-published e-book, and is now out in paper from Saga. It introduces us to reluctant hero Shelley, a former anti-war activist who chooses to join the military rather than serve jail time after being arrested at a protest.

To be honest with you, he's reluctant to go to the hospital to begin with. The symptoms were exactly the same as (last year). And we made him go to the hospital, which is ludicrous for him not to go. He gets there, they run some tests, the tests are negative. He wanted to come back here, so he signed himself out of the hospital. They weren't done doing the tests.

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

People are very reluctant to invest unless they know it's going to be a sure thing, and let's face it: film is never a sure thing.

The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music. It's all an online business now, and that's, you know - the bookstore culture is a very vibrant part of the American experience that we're very reluctant to see go away.

Some people have been reluctant to call this a bull market, because it's nothing like the 1990s. But it is a bull market -- it's just nothing like the 1990s.

Financial markets want the Fed to signal possible easing ahead due to the growth slowdown and stock market declines, ... However, the Fed will be reluctant to do that while CPI core is still accelerating.

Without sulfites, wine may smell and taste funky or re-ferment in the bottle. Many distributors and shop owners are consequently reluctant to stock wines made without sulfites.

With oil prices at $60 a barrel it was a foregone conclusion they were not going to cut. If you do see disruption from Nigeria, if you do see disruption from Iran, the oil price will go substantially higher from here. So OPEC is reluctant to start turning the taps off just now.

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.

Despite improvements in confidence and still reasonable sales, the results suggest that business is still reluctant to increase hiring.

Despite the lower value ratings Cisco received in our survey this year, the truth is that organizations are reluctant to change vendors, and if they do, there has to be a very compelling case for doing so, ... Unlike in the router market, there doesn't appear to be a shake-up going on in the switch market. Vendors that make an organization's short list are likely already installed in that network.

Companies are reluctant to buy stuff that's disruptive to their infrastructure

I've been acting for a long time, and I've done a lot of things, and I've been maintaining my anonymity pretty well. I get recognized once a week, at most, here and there, so I'm reluctant to give that up.

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.

Although some government officials and ruling bloc lawmakers remain reluctant toward an early policy shift, there are nearly no objections in the private sector, including the banking industry, the insurance industry and business lobbies.

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,

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.

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

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

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

Probably the most relevant thing I can say to the truth of the story has to do with how hard it was to get her to tell her story. She was a reluctant witness the whole time.

Sometimes a manager is reluctant to play a kid. I needed Grady to be open minded that if a young player is ready, we'll give him an opportunity. Grady assured us that he has no reservations about that. He's completely on board with it.

People are still looking for an interest-rate cut, but it's not at all clear when that will happen. Expectations are very volatile, but the point is that the currency seems very reluctant to go down either way.

Presidents are reluctant to take on a regent,

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.

Our concern is that the sport of ocean racing has been damaged and people are reluctant to get involved because of the actions of one person.

Employers are often able to deter workers from contesting labor violations by threatening to turn them over to federal immigration authorities. Even when employers do not make these threats overtly, day laborers, mindful of their undocumented status, are reluctant to seek recourse through government channels. We want to change that.

Employers are reluctant to hire people who can't do the job they want and they're reluctant to pay more.

Employers are reluctant to offer benefit programs to employees that they themselves have a hard time figuring out, and this is precisely one of those things that an employer himself doesn't know how he would answer the question for himself as to whether or not to do it.

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.

The revolution sweeps all before it regardless of the consequences. This is probably the most important point: none of the revolutionaries are ever in control of their destinies. We, the followers, whether reluctant or enthusiastic, turn our backs or avert our eyes, or whether we embrace it with open arms, we're being swept along too.

We've depended very heavily on the inflows of foreign capital. And if for any number of reasons foreigners are reluctant to buy --Treasuries in particular -- that could cause a certain amount of volatility in the market,

Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.

Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.

We're reluctant to put any numbers in precisely because it has to be negotiated.

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.

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

This is a supremely difficult diplomatic task. It is negotiating with multiple parties, dealing with the Israeli public that is reluctant to make concessions on either track and certainly is reluctant to make simultaneously large concessions on all tracks.

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.

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.

This is a rough story for journalists to cover because your journalism textbook has to take a back seat to your moral compass, and the coverage is visceral because of this. When people beg Chris Lawrence for help, they're forcing him to be not just a spectator but a reluctant leader.

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.

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.

Indian democracy has often been likened to the stately progress of the elephant - ponderous in its gait and reluctant to change course, but not easily swayed from its new path when it does.

I'm very disappointed that after a lot of hard work and a public consultation and the reluctant agreement of Ware residents to approve 70 homes, we are now being asked to approve another 30.

If there are any signs that the economy will grow at or above trend, then the MPC will be even more reluctant to cut interest rates again.

I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn't children's literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world.

I'm reluctant to change but haven't read it. I'm still thinking about it.

I'm reluctant to get into a daily back and forth with Taiwanese officials about things that they said the day before. I think our position is clear.

I'm reluctant to get involved in science fiction, because I feel like I've done it and done it well, so unless something comes along that I feel has the potential to do something even more interesting, it seems a shame to sort of re-live something in half-measures.

I'm reluctant to revisit things like talk of the 'Goldilocks economy,' but what I think you did see the market react to is Greenspan outlining an environment that is balanced, but with a fairly strong upward bias,

In the 1990s, Japan was a reluctant investor overseas. Now that the domestic economy is doing better, Japan will take on more (overseas investment) risks, and that should benefit the rest of Asia as well, including Indonesia.

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.

If you look out into next week, you've got the weapons report from inspectors due and the current view is that people may be reluctant to put money to work ahead of that.

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

I've had conversations with five CEOs of major casino companies, including Harrah's and MGM and Casino Magic. They tell me they're reluctant to rebuild if the other factors still exist,

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

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.

Everybody is doing a 'wait and see' after the recent run. In the last few months, every time we've stepped in too quickly, we've been subject to a correction shortly thereafter, so people are reluctant to commit.

Everybody is so reluctant to believe in miracles. But I believe in miracles and in the power of prayer from friends.

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

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