of it is national security, some of it is, let's imagine an ally of ours is involved in that operation. So, there's a reluctance and there's a question, it's a little bit like UFOs, could the public handle it? Is the question that's always asked in these cases. Meaning, could the public handle it if, for example, the UK was running an
In one case, two commentators, including the very eminent British military historian, Sir John Keegan, worked out that since the middle of the 17th century, The reluctance to call the conflict a civil war non-international armed conflict has, in fact, become typical of international organizations in the 21st century, because now so much
as the economic relationship with the PRC. Despite the US's reluctance to recognize Taiwan as its own country, it still hedges defensively against Beijing in the Asia-Pacific region. And the US remains Taiwan's biggest weapons dealer, supplying more than 70% of its
And I'll give an example that I may regret later, given that this is a live feed, but I think it's important. Maybe it's a reluctance to work above your level when you haven't been blessed.
there must be some self-interest element that is the ultimate explanation. And the reluctance on the part of people to really allow the possibility of real truism, that was actually quite shocking. And then later, of course, I came across these kind of ideas more formally presented in works.
And one of the things I have to overcome with my students-- some of the students, the mid-grade officers-- is there's a reluctance sometimes to study theory. And sometimes their reluctance is with good reason. But if they've ever heard of Clausewitz, or if anyone's ever heard of him, obviously he's the author of "On War." And that's certainly where he's been most of influential.
No. I mean people tell me, but I can't assess it for a couple of reasons. It might be reluctance , because I think that if I say what I really suspect, and that's somehow self-aggrandizing. Or it could be the fact is that I feel, even though I don't run the site, still too in the midst of it.
But it's work. It's like I would work and it would spill over. And so her reluctance to talk to them, to engage with them was based on things that I've learned.
really is in the present and in the future but she was also really reflecting a reluctance to engage painful unfavorable difficult moments from the
I mean, and I'm just having some new realizations as we're sitting here, but I'm just like, that's pretty weird. But there was a bit of reluctance in deciding, OK, you could leave.
Yeah. And like I said, don't be intimidated. Because I do understand people's reluctance because it could be a strong smelling food. But I just think that people should be a little bit braver because most cheeses really aren't going to be as strong as they smell, no matter what.
And so there was very little good contemporary information about how personality operated. Then I had some personal reluctance to propose the theory as well, I was worried that it would seem, kind of like, I don't know if you know this expression, I guess it's an old fashioned expression, like navel gazing.
Male #2: Do you wanna get out of the situation that you're in. Male #3: What is the reluctance for taking responsibility for our people and our communities? Male #4: Are your children better or worse off as a result of your involvement?
Actually, it couldn't be a better time, because you will get that exposure. But for me, my reluctance , it came from television and it being a show. For me, had it not been televised, I would have been more happy to participate more easily, I guess.
has happened, or will soon happen. Our ignorance in this department seems only equal to Americans' congenital reluctance to master any foreign language. It is scarcely a secret that we live in a terrifying world, a world in which
Again, that suggests the reluctance to do and undertake an initiative which seems to make sense.
which I won't get into now but to his reluctance he found himself in the spring of 1912 running for the
josephson's encouragement and despite the singer's initial reluctance to embrace politics really holiday introduced it into a set in
And ageism feeds on denial, our reluctance to acknowledge that we are aging, that we might even be old, right?
But I would say it's complicated because there's a lot of scientific reluctance to do
Often, if I do overcome my reluctance to make a phone call or send an email, often, I find scientists are often
Following up on that, we see reluctance to modernize our food as well.
that would lead you there, but that reluctance was clearly a major issue in terms of how other countries would or would
bright eyes, and not with reluctance .
And so the British Museum, with some reluctance , agreed that they could be tested non-destructively, for the presence of fluorine, and they had no
One day, I finally braved my reluctance and stopped by her bed, full stop.
I give myself to your care she said whatever happens very slowly and with immense reluctance
And people who'd been through those years in Europe started to talk and be interviewed and people started to ask questions. But until then, there was this real reluctance to talk about it. There was a tremendous amount of guilt and shame.
marginalized communities. And you can see a bit of a reluctance with people, or the sort of, why does everybody have to be so sensitive?
The need to read and to teach these books is an argument that I make with reluctance and sadness.
Now maybe there's some excitement about these things, but there's often a lot of reluctance .
And I also wondered if you had any experience starting restaurants in the US and if you ran into any reluctance from the local people about an American starting a business.
There are many days when you don't want to start working out, but you have to overcome this initial reluctance , and
Her response to this can be seen in the notice in the "Charleston Courier." And you see that it says, "It's with great reluctance
And I think sometimes, for the folks like us in this room, that stigma and that reluctance can be even stronger, because all of us make our livelihood,
I do hope that you'll tell me about the slipper, he said, ignoring my reluctance .
Which means, of course, that there is a great deal of reluctance to get one's hopes up now, you know, to actually get into a mindset of saying, well,
I teach a class-- a class called Strategy and War-- and we talk about Clausewitz the theorist. And one of the things I have to overcome with my students-- some of the students, the mid-grade officers-- is there's a reluctance sometimes to study theory. And sometimes their reluctance is with good reason.
So clearly, getting China, biggest emitter, large, emerging economy-- frankly, a country whose reluctance
When there is a substantial investment in an existing market, I think there's a lot of reluctance to disrupt it.
I think that it came to mean something that was far more radical and hard to swallow It's not a tone that you feel somehow a responsibility to read, and just for a reluctance to start.
that drives down the total rate of death in war. Kind of an international Leviathan. The limiting step there is the reluctance of third parties to put their own citizens at risk
And I think -- someone asked me about this recently. I don't know if you find this to be true, but sometimes there's a -- we have a reluctance to really admit the specific
and services rendered. And therefore, there'll be always a reluctance to pay taxes.