Sentences with phrase «little appetite for it»

Hobbled by the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Clinton administration had little appetite for a public fight over integration.

On a later panel, executives from four leading hotel REITS said they have little appetite for lodging acquisitions, at least for the first part of the year.

But Congress has shown little appetite for new gun regulations.

Two - year lows in transaction confirmations despite low network fees suggest there is little appetite for cashing out as BTC / USD continues to bounce between $ 9,000 and $ 11,500.

Consumers have shown little appetite for it.

A couple years ago there was some concern that institutional inertia might mean, barring vociferous demonstrations by the Bar, there is little appetite for accreditation.

The jury who convicted Rubashkin sat for 18 days and reviewed more than 9,000 exhibits, and the justices probably have as little appetite for a do - over as they do for smacking down Judge Reade.

Law firms have shown little appetite for Damage Based Agreements (contingency fees) since their introduction back in April 2013.

There is little appetite for replacing a system, Public Interest Immunity, which broadly works with another, Closed Material Procedures, which even those who work within it say does not.

If there has been little appetite for reform of divorce laws in recent years, there has been much activity in other areas of family law, in response to changes in social structures and the nature of family relationships.

It was however clear from the responses that there was little appetite for making any substantive changes to the regime, with limited support for introducing measures to give statutory force to SIP 16.

Except in extraordinary cases, employees were bereft of a legal remedy, as courts had little appetite for walking into the workplace and ordering bosses to be nicer to their employees.

With political will running short before the midterm election, the Senate has shown little appetite for a broader, economy - wide climate change bill as passed by the House almost exactly one year ago.

«Whaling is cruel and unnecessary, and all of our studies have also shown there is little appetite for whale meat in Iceland or internationally.

The spry retriever began leaving kibble in her bowl and showing little appetite for food.

More recently, online loa n companie s have proliferated, filling the void left by retreating traditional lenders who have little appetite for consumer lending to the masses.

In the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis, banks and businesses seemed to recede into credit purgatory where there was little appetite for lending or borrowing.

I was sure I'd sell the car — ideally back to the dealer, as I had little appetite for the hassles of listing and selling it privately.

«Your chicken,» she said, «is probably not what I feel so little appetite for.»

There's little appetite for it, which is understandable.

It's also frustrating, because so far there seems to be little appetite for making the evaluations mean something by, you know, factoring them into decisions about raises, transfers and layoffs.

Requiring people to wade through irrelevant content is another great way of ensuring learners have little appetite for more.

Those battles have been elusive of late, as de Blasio has mostly declined to do combat with the charter sector, and Cuomo has shown little appetite for publicly pushing reforms.

This change, which was added to the bill in the 11th hour (it was previously proposed and then reemerged as an amendment on final passage), is intended to promote private school choice, a goal that Congress had displayed little appetite for tackling head on.

The public shows little appetite for films on this subject so far, but reviews for this (directed by Doug Liman) have been pretty strong.

Not only was it soothing for me to drink when I had little appetite for much else, but the gelatin in the bones was calming and healing to my gut.

With a cover that resembles Glamour and stories that feature everything from the anatomy of «bad» HIV / AIDS law to a profile of an HIV - infected South African who started the Positive Women's Network (complete with a photo spread on the ingredients of her purse), the magazine hopes to reach an audience that likely would have little appetite for the more technical update report.

Indeed, blue states have shown little appetite for implementing an economywide price on carbon, widely viewed by economists and policymakers as the most effective way to tackle carbon emissions.

While party strategists are glad to have the money that Mrs. Clinton is directing from the Democratic National Committee to voter - turnout efforts in Indiana and Missouri, they have little appetite for Mrs. Clinton to visit those states, where she is likely to lose, because that would make it easier for Republicans to tie Democratic Senate candidates to her.

They express little appetite for Johnson's brand of small - state conservatism.

There is little appetite for another challenge to Corbyn among MPs, but a number of peers expressed fury about the leadership's position on Brexit on the second day of debate on the Brexit bill in the House of Lords.

But so far she has shown little appetite for grasping poisoned chalices long term.

There is little appetite for policy discussion and virtually none for the theoretical developments required to understand the profound social and economic developments of the last 100 years.

But MTA board members showed little appetite for even biennial increases at their meeting Wednesday, talking instead about the prospect of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio agreeing to some form of congestion pricing or a so - called millionaire's tax.

As WBFO's Chris Caya reports - there appears to be little appetite for recouping taxpayer dollars sent to the BMHA or any other agency or service provider to the city of Buffalo.

Despite the corruption convictions of two powerful Capitol figures, Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, their former colleagues have shown little appetite for reform.

Blair rightly states that there's little appetite for state control in the economy - but is perhaps ignorant of the genuine Third Way, that of co-operative and mutual enterprise... Perhaps this could be central to the political economy of a good society?

IoD members are pragmatic, there is little appetite for withdrawal, but there is broad support for reform of its institutions and practices.

As for the mayor, his poll numbers may be a temporary setback, or perhaps a sign that New Yorkers have little appetite for a scandal at City Hall.

HUD officials said the department's senior leadership had little appetite for a confrontation over race with the county, which is home to prominent Democrats such as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

New York taxpayers have little appetite for another economic development program that favors one industry over another or sends government checks to businesses that don't really do what they promised.

By the same token, the evidence of a national will to bring in proportional representation is one thing — but it will be more willingly accepted, especially by a Conservative government that shows little appetite for reform, if this change to the British Constitution comes through evolution rather than revolution.

Although democratically legitimated, Duterte has shown little appetite for due process, basic rights or restraint in waging his war against criminals and terrorists.

If you read Marie Kondo's first book, The Life - Changing Magic of Tidying Up, and you are reading this parenting blog, you probably have as little appetite for Kondo's second act as I do.

It would have been easy for PSG to show little appetite for a domestic cup — even if it was against Monaco — after their latest Champions League setback, but they stayed hungry and punished the men from the principality.

Chelsea only slowed spending in recent years because they went totally ham in the years prior, they are stacked full of good youth (they sold a lot of quality young players too) and Roman seems to have little appetite for overspending now but they still have bigger resources than us and better facilities just like City a fact people gloss over and the result of the overspending on youth sees them recoup money that they then use to spend whilst it looks like they are not spending (also got lucky with the price inflation directly after they went crazy on youth and the regularity of their China deals is sketchy at best.)

Broker - dealers have little appetite for inventory, thereby reducing the ability of markets to facilitate normal risk transfer.

There is little appetite for a straight - up federal bailout inside government or the industry.

Investors have little appetite for human portfolio managers these days.

Consumers there had little appetite for paying for music prior to adopting Spotify, he said.