Turkey, which had sided with Germany only reluctantly, was reckoned to be a soft target.
Wages, which make up two-thirds of total costs, typically move down only reluctantly, so profits take the strain.
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As a declared monarchist, he set up the referendum only reluctantly, and did nothing to engage the country in debate.
Woodrow Wilson's illnesses were kept secret, and he only reluctantly gave up the idea of standing for a third term.
Some of its old-world gentility remains: Goldman agreed to talk for this story only reluctantly, wary of looking like a braggart.
Mr Abbas only reluctantly agreed in the teeth of opposition from many in the Palestinian leadership (though not, apparently, Mr Arafat).
In August 1941 the House of Representatives only reluctantly voted to renew the peacetime draft, passing it by a single vote, 203-202.
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The 78-year-old aviator agreed only reluctantly to travel to Alaska to help locate the plane, since his 1958 crash still held unhappy memories.
It is time to begin pondering these and other questions as Silly Season begins, even if only reluctantly and with a knowing half-smirk.
David had only reluctantly introduced them to the Harts, hustling the conversation along as he fetched his duffelbag on the morning of the first departure.
Reports suggest Mr Saakashvili only reluctantly agreed to another of the plan's clauses - international talks about the future status of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Obama said he agreed only reluctantly (in a deal with Republicans last December) to extend cuts for the wealthy for 2011 and 2012, and would refuse to renew them again.
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The random free-wheeling social element just throws a lot of mud into those gears and companies are only reluctantly jerry-rigging it to their service and sales and marketing operations, like some kind of IT Frankenstein.
However, experts say that the oil industry would naturally be at odds with the proposal for an increased renewable fuel standard, particularly since it only reluctantly accepted the current standard of 7.5 billion gallons of renewables by 2012.
She was only reluctantly interested in the particulars of the medications, but Oberon wanted to know all about them, and talked incessantly about it, parroting what Beadle and Blork had said or reading aloud from the packets of information that the nurses had given them.
He said the decision to halt the scheme was only taken "reluctantly".
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President Boris Yeltsin reluctantly went along only after it became obvious he couldn't stop NATO expansion.
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Told that he had to take physics first, he reluctantly agreed, only to discover that he had a knack for it.
In Germany, the Bavarians have reluctantly removed border posts with Austria, only to reinstate police controls further inland.
She was not about to let just a bunch of men -- (laughter) -- in this meeting. (Applause.) It was only when the car literally could not get to her driveway that she reluctantly decided to stay home.
At a conference in Washington DC in 1884, the French fought a valiant rearguard action but only Brazil and Santa Domingo thought they had a case, and France, reluctantly, adjusted its clocks to the emerging reality of Anglo-Saxon supremacy.
The App is only available for use in San Ramon right now but thanks to the help of a Bay Area billionaire, who reluctantly sold his company, PeopleSoft, to Oracle in 2004, and now is the founder and CEO of enterprise software firm WorkDay, fire stations across the country will be able to customize it for their areas.
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