The Gulf Arabs are loth to cough up the cash they promised to support the rebels.
It is loth to help Polish farmers if that would mean less generosity to French ones.
But even Major Qetrani seems loth to wage all-out war against Colonel Qaddafi's forces.
But powerful soldiers in Rwanda's army are apparently loth to hand Mr Nkunda over.
He helped to pass ethics and campaign-finance reforms in a state loth to do so.
Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority, has been loth to make this pronouncement.
Loth to share power, politicians argue that ordinary citizens cannot be trusted with too much.
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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.
Many such countries have been loth to tap the fund because of the stigma involved.
He may be loth to risk his popularity at the peak of his powers.
Fearful of rising unemployment, it has been loth to let insolvent companies go bust.
America is loth to give ground on bananas and beef following its hard-won legal victories.
During booms, governments are loth to take the punchbowl away, at least until the next election.
No wonder, then, that Europe's central bankers are loth to cut interest rates further.
Most Israelis are loth to part with the Golan escarpment that towers over north-eastern Israel.
Worse still, the markets are loth to lend to Japanese banks even in yen.
The Kremlin is clearly loth to see another Muslim-majority region descend into anarchic violence.
Institutions may be loth to invest in a fund that is, in essence, a one-man show.
His heart was weak, but he was loth to go through the surgery he needed.
In an election year, congressmen are loth to support anything that smacks of foreign aid.
But in his second term, since 1995, he has appeared loth to add to that record.
Mainstream Basque nationalists, usually loth to condemn separatists (even violent ones) outright, joined in the denunciations.
Even some secular Israelis would be loth to see it revert once more to Muslim control.
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Once particular lines of communication have been established, people seem loth to abandon them.
The Congress party, which rules Maharashtra and heads the national coalition government, is loth to upset him.
This is something North Korea's leaders, intent only on their own political survival, are loth to concede.
And firms are loth to lay out for plant and machinery a German niche when demand is so uncertain.
But most governments are loth to put their citizens at the mercy of the world's imperfect markets.
Although minority stakes have been sold in state-run firms, the government is loth to give up control.
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