With municipal elections due this month, legislators will be loth to take these unpopular steps.
The fastest-growing new members will probably soon be loth to subsidise their less competitive neighbours.
He may be loth to risk his popularity at the peak of his powers.
Institutions may be loth to invest in a fund that is, in essence, a one-man show.
Even some secular Israelis would be loth to see it revert once more to Muslim control.
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However, the Bank of Japan will be loth to allow the yen to strengthen by much more.
He may be loth to discuss other equally dodgy shipments of higher-quality arms to his own side.
Most coalition and crossbench members, the reformers reasoned, however disgruntled with their government, would be loth to turf themselves out prematurely.
As for Russia, it would be loth to embrace Belarus on the sort of equal terms that Mr Lukashenka has demanded.
Unless southern California seems serious about this, northern California and the neighbouring states will be loth to open the taps further.
Zanu-PF would be loth to admit publicly that it was backing down over anything, least of all in the face of foreigners and whites.
But the Bank will be loth to repeat the mistake of the late 1980s, when too lax a monetary policy inflated a property-price bubble.
Republicans will be loth to allow much movement on any of the big non-budgetary issues, such as campaign finance, managed health care or gun-control.
If farm prices were to tumble, both America and Europe might be loth to relinquish export subsidies, which in recent years have been kept down by firm markets.
The United States, too, twitches at the prospect of Mr Erdogan taking over, lest he be loth to co-operate against terrorism and ends Turkey's cosy military relationship with Israel.
But he still fears that the United States may be so preoccupied with fighting terrorism that it will be loth to get stuck into Middle East peacemaking at the same time.
For his part, Mr Chirac, who had been grooming Mr de Villepin as a presidential hopeful and has long distrusted Mr Sarkozy, would be loth to grant him the liberty he seeks.
Boards would be loth to retain an indicted auditor, especially after seeing former directors of WorldCom and Enron pay millions of dollars out of their own pockets to settle investors' lawsuits stemming from accounting scandals.
But many leading Swedish Social Democrats are still loth to be railroaded.
One possibility, loth though experts would be to admit it, is mere fashion.
The incinerator, which was once supposed to pay for itself, will probably be sold to pay for some of the debt, though the city controller is loth to lose any potential money-maker.
Although this law could be more widely used, American prosecutors are loth to wade into such murky legal waters.
And some of America's allies are loth to hand over suspects who may be sentenced to death.
The home ministry says it is loth to hand the regions more money until it can be sure the money will be well spent.
The more passionate conservative tax-cutters are loth to abandon that particular prize just yet, but even they recognise that full elimination will be difficult.
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