reluctances

I will go down, proceeded she, and excuse your attendance at afternoon tea, as I did to dinner: for I know you will have some little reluctances to subdue.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

The pressure is mounting as overseas publications keep reporting these electoral anomalies of Venezuela The Economist, the Inter American Dialogue, the OAS and other folks show obvious reluctances at monitoring Venezuelan elections, but inside the country more and more NGO and non directly politician people are complaining and organizing, making it harder and harder to only point the finger at Sumate.

Bombing the CNE but getting PDVSA erased from the map 2005

The pressure is mounting as overseas publications keep reporting these electoral anomalies of Venezuela The Economist, the Inter American Dialogue, the OAS and other folks show obvious reluctances at monitoring Venezuelan elections, but inside the country more and more NGO and non directly politician people are complaining and organizing, making it harder and harder to only point the finger at Sumate.

07/10/2005 - 07/17/2005 2005

I am not a swift worker, and Lady had her natural reluctances-and all of a sudden the sky opened up like somebody chopped open the bellies of the clouds.

Shadow Games Cook, Glen 1989

Two of these armed reluctances, yielding neither to reason nor orders, were quelled bloodily by Taurentians.

Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

Two of these armed reluctances, yielding neither to reason nor orders, were quelled bloodily by Taurentians.

Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

He knew precisely the strength of the magnetic fields and the permeabilities, reluctances, and so on, of all the materials involved.

Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972

Farishta in his exhaustion-beyond-exhaustion would lose control and place his sobbing head on Chamcha's shoulder, while Saladin -- prolonged captivity erodes certain reluctances among the captives -- would stroke his face and kiss the top of his head, _There, there, there_.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

This time we have not the reluctances expressed in such words as "like" and

The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

Service, and, after the usual reluctances and brave play (made for the sake of deferring the inevitable) with the photograph of the old love, is at last gloriously on with the new.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 19, 1919 Various