considerable reluctance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconsiderableandreluctance
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considerable
adjective
uk/kənˈsɪd.ər.ə.bəl/us/kənˈsɪd.ɚ.ə.bəl/
large or of ...
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reluctance
noun[S or U]
uk/rɪˈlʌk.təns/us/rɪˈlʌk.təns/
an unwillingness to ...
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(Definition ofconsiderableandreluctancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There must beconsiderablereluctanceto reject it.
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I shall vote for it withconsiderablereluctance.
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On the other hand, there wasconsiderablereluctanceto deal with vested interests and any kind of costs.
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We have made one exception, with veryconsiderablereluctance.
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They showconsiderablereluctanceto leave this world.
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I can understand theconsiderablereluctanceof people to enter into litigation, however justified, if the price is the sale of their only remaining assets.
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Perhaps there remains aconsiderablereluctanceon the part of the probation service to operate such supervision in the community.
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Naturally there isconsiderablereluctanceon their part to say anything about this because it is political dynamite.
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The most obvious fact to me was the veryconsiderablereluctanceto change.
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He has admitted that he did it withconsiderablereluctance, that he did it purely in the great national emergency in which we are placed.
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There was, therefore,considerablereluctanceto impose these duties.
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There are several hundred gas-driven vehicles of all kinds now in operation, but owners and operators in general showconsiderablereluctanceto convert.
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Yet there is aconsiderablereluctancefor this to be done on the part of a number of courts.
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I feelconsiderablereluctanceto agreeing to a proposal to spread criminal liability so widely, without any real justification.
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This also gives rise to aconsiderablereluctanceamong people ever again to take part in such undertakings.
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We agree that there is a hard core of fathers who feelconsiderablereluctanceto support their children after separation or divorce.
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I find aconsiderablereluctanceon the part of my industrialist friends to employ women scientists in laboratories—goodness knows why!
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I decided to take part in this debate withconsiderablereluctance.
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I want to make only one party point, and that withconsiderablereluctance.
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We on these benches have submitted withconsiderablereluctanceto its becoming a standard and not a ceiling.
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