Asia's consumers are readier for a culture change than are its banks and institutions.
The Europeans are keener on offering incentives and the Americans readier to threaten punishment.
The new government is readier to admit that the private sector has something valuable to offer.
This has aroused fears, in France, of a bigger, bolder Germany, readier to throw its weight around.
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They hope he is readier to accept the Churchill doctrine of jaw, jaw being better than war, war.
It rejoices that Jews, feeling themselves increasingly secure, are readier than they were to speak out against prejudice.
If the industry could make that distinction transparent, it might win readier acceptance.
The third step is to be readier to prosecute terrorists for their crimes.
This may be because the readier availability of divorce in America has left fewer people trapped in loveless marriages.
The French are readier than ever before to act together on security matters.
SPD's chances at any new election, so it may yet prove readier to agree to a deal with Ms Merkel.
Still, eagerness to join the European Union has made several Central European countries much readier to listen to Gypsy grievances.
German trade-unionists, whether speaking through their union or their works council, are no readier to rush headlong into suicide than anyone else.
Now the pound is being pounded they are finding a readier audience.
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Its local publisher says that disgruntled restaurants seem readier to complain about the reviews they receive than to respond by improving their fare.
These firms benefit not only from a history of specialisation but also from readier access to the mighty capital markets of their home country.
Mr Bush says he is willing to work with Congress to come up with a compromise, but his opponents seem readier to attack him.
Sir William was certainly no less responsible (though he was readier to admit it) than was Mr Straw for the inadvertent disclosure of witnesses' names.
He promised that shovel-ready construction projects will be shovel-readier this time.
Another measure of changing attitudes: in bus queues or at sweet-potato stands, people are readier to chat to foreigners than they were just a few years ago.
Nowadays such forces are readier to fight protesters with distance weapons (such as rubber bullets) rather than grappling with them at close quarters, as British bobbies do.
The Dutch have been readier to take Israel's part but, overall, the narrative used by pro-Palestinian lobbies is becoming the standard discourse among Europe's leading governments, Germany included.
That would give poachers even readier access to their prey.
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Though Germany may be readier than others to give him the benefit of doubt, the West is unlikely to welcome Belarus, under Mr Lukashenka's thumb, as a prospective candidate to western clubs.
This latter, more like a typical Christian Democrat party, had shared in power, but in opposition its now 24 members may break away and be readier to ease the new government's path.
That rings about right: not only is Mahathir a trained physician, but as leader for the past 17 years, he has generally been brisk, modern, quick to diagnose and even readier to prescribe.
If the allies had looked readier for a ground war earlier this year to back up their threatened air strikes, Mr Milosevic might have been slower to pick a fight and keener to talk peace.
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Despite readier access to medical services than in other prisons, not all inmates prefer incarceration at the six Federal Medical Centers operated by the prison bureau, where many live under even greater restrictions than at typical facilities.
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