Word: loath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loath to proceed with recommendations to the Congress until I can have an opportunity to confer with you personally. . . . There are also other important questions as to which I think an interchange of views will be in the public interest. ... A world economic conference will be held during the coming winter. . . . Parallel with this is the Disarmament Conference...
...doing it. It is clear that with the armament of the nations in its present state, enforcement of any decree agreeable to all nations but one would be a long and bloody task. With national mentalities as they are, people would be quick to defend their governments crimes, and loath to punish the transgressions of others, so long as they themselves were not molested. Their governments would of course encourage their ardor with propaganda, and supply them their guns and graves. Any war of enforcement against a major power today would call for a mobilization of the other powers...
...beginning to be reworked again. Taking as his subject the four tense months in Charleston that culminated in the bombardment of Fort Sumter, Author Heyward has brought to light a whole shining age. Peter Ashley-a carefully unimpassioned but compelling tale that even Abolitionist-grandsired readers will be loath to leave-makes vivid and convincing a crucial scene in U. S. history...
...that a foul will not be discovered, they will commit it. If the present drastic penalties will force coaches to teach their players to adhere to the rules at all times the new changes should gain their ends. But when a large penalty is at stake officials are often loath to call the foul. They must be instructed that with more rigid and severe rules their officiating must also be more strict. If referees actually disqualify every man who breaks the rule which prohibits striking and slugging, such playing will under normal conditions soon come...
Though Britain's best educated youth are loath to enter the Church (average pay is ?400 annually: $2,000), there is no actual shortage of applicants. But there is a definite lack of funds to pay for their five to seven years of training. Hence the Church of England aims to distribute its clergy more evenly throughout its 13,775 parishes...