This inability or unwillingness to call something out plagues the workplace.
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".
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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So we create that invisibility ourselves in our own unwillingness to discuss unpleasant issues or in our willingness to make light of them.
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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?
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
But what if this salutary caution turns into an unwillingness to use force at all, even when it is called for by the national interest or on humanitarian grounds?
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