He was loath to call for immediate action.

But the government is loath to consider a mandatory saving plan.

Mrs. Hall, nothing loath, answered his questions and developed a conversation.

Politicians are loath to impose such a tax, fearing a political backlash.

Regional policymakers nowadays are loath to risk this progress through hostile behavior.

I simply loath it, yet I must conform, what can you do?

So far, however, the US and the EU have been loath to relinquish their privileged positions.

As for Africa, its leaders are loath to do or say anything that might interrupt the flow of World Bank largesse.

Yet, even as the luster of the China miracle dazzles the world, the Chinese seem loath leave behind their dark feelings of victimization.

Moreover, northwestern Kosovo is potentially an important mining area, and thus a source of employment and revenue that the government is understandably loath to surrender.

Pakistan s homegrown Islamist militias continue to operate openly, and the Pakistani army and intelligence remain loath to sever their cozy ties with extremist and terrorist elements.

Then he offered it to him again, then he put it by again, but, to my thinking, he was very loath to lay his fingers off it.

So he must surely loath writers who represent everything that the Tea Party and other radical right wingers abhor the highly educated, intellectual, urban, secular, and not always white.

The Government of Israel, with its important security concerns, is loath to relinquish control, almost acting as though there has been no withdrawal, he had stated in the letter.

The United States has no compulsory saving plan, and it has an abysmally low in fact, negative personal saving rate. But the government is loath to consider a mandatory saving plan.

In addition, those in favor of reviving EU China arms trade see such sales as a stabilizer in bouts of political turbulence and are loath to let bad politics interfere with good business.

4.16 Given the Government's reactions to serious violence against Christian churches, it can hardly be argued, in the State party's view, that the Government condones the violence or is loath to protect Christians.

Women did not take on chiefly titles in part because of a traditional deference to male members of the family and in part because they were loath to assume the weight of responsibility involved.

In fact, Mr. James Wolfensohn, the Quartet Special Envoy for Disengagement, summarized the situation in a letter to the Secretary General dated 16 October 2005, when he said that the occupying Power is loath to relinquish control, almost acting as though there has been no withdrawal .