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Example sentences for: reluctance

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Preoccupation with the scandal led a harried and nervous president to send his deputies into a sausage grinder, say Gloria Borger ( Face the Nation ) and Fred Barnes ( McLaughlin Group ). A reluctance to appear in public forums for fear of drawing Lewinsky questions compromises Clinton as commander in chief, says Gigot on Fox News Sunday --Clinton "can't compartmentalize these things the way he wants to."
The LAT front reports that California's Latinos' longstanding reluctance to vote--a trend that has consistently kept them politically under-represented there--appears to be changing.
Something else they have in common is a reluctance to admit what this strategy implies.
The paper says some of Bush's reluctance to hire Beltway types stems from a longstanding distrust of the East Coast establishment, which goes back to his student days at Andover and Yale.
The WP and NYT front pictures of the Bushes on the stump Saturday, and the NYT explains that, faced with a tough New Hampshire contest, Bush finally overcame his reluctance to flaunt his political pedigree.