• Similar cases have occasionally shone light on Nepal's perceived inability or unwillingness to deal with serious human rights violations.

    BBC: Nepal's long wait for war crimes justice

  • This inability or unwillingness to call something out plagues the workplace.

    FORBES: Does Voldemort Work In Your Office?

  • And the inability or unwillingness of Muslims to acknowledge and learn from their history is not only an obstacle to setting the record straight, but, more importantly, it prevents them from reforming their group solidarity so as not to repeat the errors of the past.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Muslim-on-Muslim Violence

  • Siniora's inability or unwillingness to confront Hizbullah and to end its status as an independent political and military force in Lebanon engendered a situation where, through their support for Lebanon's "unity" government, the US, France and the UN effectively protected Hizbullah and preserved its ability to maintain its independent position in Lebanon as a Syrian and Iranian proxy against Israel.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: How not to help "moderates"

  • It said health and safety was "often invoked to disguise someone's real motives - concerns over costs or complexity, compensation culture or an unwillingness to honestly defend an unpopular decision".

    BBC: Royal wedding: Cameron urges street party celebrations

  • So who now has credibility to challenge Asia's addictive energy and food subsidies, capital controls that range from Mahathir Mohamad's famous defiance of the IMF in Malaysia to China's continuing currency games, or the unwillingness of various nations to let more international air into their banking systems?

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • American companies have been exposed to a string of official rebuffs in recent weeks, in Europe and in China, all exposing an unwillingness or inability to anticipate and preempt conflicts with official bodies.

    FORBES: Arrogance or Ignorance? Why Are Google and Apple Both In The Dock?

  • By early 2008, the Bush administration had tired of the Pakistani government's unwillingness or inability to take out al Qaeda's leaders, and in July, the president authorized Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults in the tribal regions without the permission of the Pakistani government.

    CNN: Commentary: Where's Osama bin Laden?

  • There's more common ground between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movements than you might think - a kind of populist revulsion at what seems to be the irresponsible excesses of the American financial sector and at the unwillingness or inability of the lawmakers in Washington to do enough about it.

    BBC: Wall street sign

  • Adjustment in the 1920s was the responsibility of the deficit countries (Germany and the U.K.) and not of the surplus countries (the U.S. and France.) That one-sided adjustment prolonged the period over which it could be made, and therefore extended the economic pain as did the unwillingness or inability of governments to devalue their national currencies.

    WSJ: Brussels Beat: Parallels With 1920s Raise Worries Over Extremism

  • Defensive or evasive behavior and an unwillingness to answer questions on the part of the minister or whoever is in charge of the church's finances may indicate funds aren't being used as the donor intended, says Victoria Collins, a certified financial planner in Corona Del Mar, Calif.

    WSJ: Trust in the Lord��But Check Out the Church

  • We are in our present, vulnerable position in no small measure precisely because of an unwillingness (or inability) on the part of successive Presidents to end the tyranny of an ABM Treaty regime that precluded the deployment, and thus undercut the urgency of developing, anti- missile systems contemplated under the SDI, GPALS and NMD programs.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Don't Breathe New Life into the A.B.M. Treaty

  • That must have made interesting reading for AIG's septuagenarian chief Maurice Greenberg , notorious for his unwillingness to retire or even to designate a successor.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Among American officials there is growing disappointment and irritation with Mr Putin, both for his standoffish attitude (they were flabbergasted when he failed to attend the G8 summit and a bilateral meeting with Mr Obama last month) and for his apparent unwillingness or inability to deliver.

    ECONOMIST: Russia and America

  • There are, though, those who criticise Waseige's obstinacy and unwillingness to consider anyone or anything that comes outside his vision.

    BBC: Robert Waseige

  • MEADS seen by Germans and Italians as a test of American good faith is apparently dying a slow death because of the unwillingness of the Pentagon or Congress to fund it.

    ECONOMIST: Platform envy

  • In the past, this alternative was not possible due to the highly perishable nature of bananas and the unwillingness of the retailer or vending operator to absorb high losses due to overripe product.

    FORBES: Del Monte Responds to Daily Show Criticism of Individually Wrapped Banana

  • So we create that invisibility ourselves in our own unwillingness to discuss unpleasant issues or in our willingness to make light of them.

    FORBES: Using the Golden Globes to Shine A Light On Domestic Violence

  • On the contrary: his evident unwillingness to cede land, or to square up to the settlers, makes the Palestinians all the more determined to get what they have been promised now, rather than wait for better things later.

    ECONOMIST: Barak��s clumsy start

  • Or are you among the 79% whose unwillingness to engage with customers on their own terms will do great damage to those companies while delivering significant benefit to competitors?

    FORBES: Google Calls Out Massive Flaw in Mobile Commerce

  • Negative and stereotypical attitudes have emerged over what has been seen as the "unwillingness by Muslims to integrate" or the intention to "impose values at odds with European identity, " Amnesty said.

    CNN: Muslims in Europe dogged by bias, Amnesty says

  • After all, this outcome was made virtually inevitable by the Europeans' unwillingness over the past week to implement or enforce what the United States hoped would be the three basic pillars of allied action -- the lifting of the arms embargo against Bosnian Muslims, air strikes and a total shut-down of the Danube and other essential supply lines for the Serbian war machine and economy.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Moment Of Truth: The US Must Stop Serbian Aggression Now

  • The unwillingness of officials to investigate a former strongman or military officers can be easily understood.

    CNN: LETTERS AND COMMENT

  • It was Foot's unwillingness to change his appearance, his clothes or his principles, that brought him a popularity rating of just 24%, the lowest since polling began.

    BBC: The Michael Foot story

  • And an unwillingness to ground this Mary in any time or place is understandable but misses the chance to make a fully fleshed person, despite Shaw's obvious theatrical gifts.

    WSJ: Review: There's something (weird) about Mary

  • The 23 year battle to make Red Tails for the big screen either demonstrates an unwillingness to take risks to discover new markets or it shows that Hollywood still has a streak of racism which brings me to the point of this article.

    FORBES: George Lucas and The Problem With Hollywood

  • First was an unwillingness to be snowed by conventional wisdom, technical jargon or the fairy tales of universal knowledge that abound when everything was still mostly talk and potential.

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  • Or maybe fighting too many wars in too many places is to blame along with our unwillingness to pay a reasonable level of taxes, based on ability, to fight these wars.

    FORBES: How The Wealthy Plan to Finance The American Aristocracy With Middle Class Dollars

  • It seems the elements I observe that contribute more frequently than not to a stalled job search or poor results are associated with three elements: lack of commitment, failure to plan and unwillingness to change.

    FORBES: How Committed Are You To Getting The Results You Seek?

  • And the company failed to exploit many of its advantages and annoyed many with its unwillingness to work with the grain of the net culture by supporting the Netscape browser or opening up AOL's Instant Messenger to work with other services.

    BBC: Screenshot of AOL.com

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