Sentences with phrase «traditional unwillingness»

Felix Rohatyn, the Lazard banker, is still at it: he is telling financially - strapped U.S. cities, to drop their traditional unwillingness to sell off public assets (water and sewer systems, parks, properties, ports, airports, etc.) to «private foreign investors» — Rohatyn's euphemism for international funny money — and allow himself and cronies to grab it up.

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That is why we have been so deeply disappointed over the last nearly two years in the CCCU leadership's unwillingness to deal decisively with whether or not the organization will take a stand for traditional marriage.

(Exodus 3:13 - 14) In consonance with this traditional attitude, the Jews, from reverential motives, substituted adonai, meaning «lord,» for the sacred name in their reading of the Scriptures; as a consequence, in the thirteenth century Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants of the name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over him.

Unless he comes from a culture in which infant mortality is so high that it is traditional to wait until a child is born to hold a shower, I can only conclude that his unwillingness is a form of punishment.

Thanks to the unwillingness of most suburban district leaders to embrace the underlying tenets of the No Child Left Behind Act — and their efforts to perpetuate the myth that traditional districts in the «burbs are doing just fine — they have ignored the innovations (including in the area of revamping teacher compensation) embraced by more reform - minded districts in big cities.

Just as in traditional publishing, there are a ton of fears around indie publishing, almost all of them based on lack of knowledge or the unwillingness to try something new.

I fear however that that day, given reviewers unwillingness to distance themselves from traditional big publishers as you so rightly pointed out, is rather far off into the future!

Conservative supporters of the Bush Administration have expressed a particular contempt for the United Nations and its various institutions, reflecting both a frustration at the unwillingness of the UN to be stampeded into decisions and a shift away from traditional diplomacy to the wilful assertion of power, perhaps best illustrated by the appointment of America's most hostile critic of the UN, John Bolton, as US Ambassador to the world body.