Sentences with phrase «universal unwillingness»

Facing the truth (state L) now lowers everyoneís utility, generating a universal unwillingness to listen — the curse of Cassandra.

But the compelling central idea of Masters of Nothing has such an ignorance right at its heart — 2010 intake Conservative MPs Matthew Hancock and Nadhim Zahawi argue that the cause of the financial crisis of 2007 - 08 can be found in our almost universal unwillingness to own up to our own irrationality.

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The universities» unwillingness to cooperate with the bishops and the Holy See over the mandate» a requirement of the universal canon law of the Church» sends the wrong message to Catholics in the United States.

Our response to climate change is uncannily similar to an even more universal disavowal: unwillingness to face our own mortality, says neuroscientist Janis Dickinson of Cornell University in New York.