Cao Cao wanted to send Guan Yu to challenge Yan Liang but he hesitated because he did not want Guan to make any contributions.

Though he hesitated to betray Italian liberals, he decided to send troops to restore the Pope.

According to contemporaries, William hesitated a moment before sheathing his sword and replying, " I don't love you enough to send you to paradise.

For an instant his men hesitated, unable to believe that their lieutenant, the most popular officer in the regiment, was dead.

John hesitated and decided not to attack Louis immediately, either due to the risks of open battle or over concerns about the loyalty of his own men.

However, as she grew increasingly unbridled in her behavior ( including committing adultery with many men and later murdering them to silence them ), Zhang, Pei, and Jia Mo considered deposing her and replacing her with Crown Prince Yu's mother Consort Xie, but they hesitated and never took actual action.

As the unit hesitated in the face of fierce Confederate fire, Shaw led his men into battle by shouting, " Forward, Fifty-Fourth Forward!

The Minamoto, reinforced with men from Kamakura led by Yoshitomo's eldest son Minamoto no Yoshihira, were the larger force but were unprepared, and hesitated at Kiyomori's return.

However, when it came to martial glory, Huo Qubing never hesitated to share the honor with his men.

Though at the time Augustus had been passing legislation to promote family values, he likely knew of her intrigues with other men but hesitated for some time to accuse her.

The enemy of the human race, who opposes all good deeds in order to bring men to destruction, beholding and envying this, invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to the people: he inspired his satellites who, to please him, have not hesitated to publish abroad that the Indians of the West and the South, and other people of whom We have recent knowledge should be treated as dumb brutes created for our service, pretending that they are incapable of receiving the Catholic Faith.

Outside, Shayne hesitated when he saw that Rourke had parked his coupe directly in front of the bar headed south.

Most of the foot soldiers wanted to continue south to Jerusalem, but Raymond IV of Toulouse, by this time the most powerful of the princes, having taken others into his employ, such as Tancred, hesitated to continue the march.

His father initially hesitated, then marched south from Dessie with 80, 000 troops.

At the crisis Luxemburg had not hesitated to throw the whole of the French and Swiss guards into the fight, led by the princes of the royal house.

At first, he Suetonius Paulinus hesitated as to whether to stand and fight there.

The British were warned that “ War is inevitable and by the fault of England ; that if England had at once declared her solidarity with Russia and France and her intention to fight if necessary, Germany and Austria would have hesitated .” In Berlin, Admiral von Müller wrote in his diary that “ Germany should remain calm to allow Russia to put herself in the wrong, but then not to shrink from war if it were inevitable .” Bethmann Hollweg told Wilhelm that “ In all events Russia must ruthlessly be put in the wrong .”

The fall of General made his cavalry hesitated.

Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.

Dean still hesitated, but Mike lifted him almost bodily into the saddle and thrust the reins in his hand.

Barton hesitated.

Again Dill hesitated.

Thinking fast, Tilghman never hesitated for one instant.

Ernie hesitated a moment.

He didn't, but it was not really a question, and so he left the room, walked down the hall to the front of the apartment, hesitated, and then knocked lightly on the closed door of the study.

He hesitated for a moment when Michelangelo asked him to disrobe, so Michelangelo gave him a piece of toweling to wrap around his loins, led him to the kitchen to take off his clothes.

She hesitated, she hopped, she rolled and rocked, skipped and jumped, but in some two weeks she started to pace, From that time to this she has shown steady improvement and now looks like one of the classiest things on the grounds.

Mickey backed off again and Roberts hesitated, then came along.

Garth hesitated.

The boy hesitated.

He hesitated a second, looking at the bottle, before he said `` Sure-sure '', and I reassured him.

Local police have hesitated to prosecute them because of the heavy court costs involved even for the simplest offense.

She hesitated, as though hunting over words and ways of putting them.

Slowly and deliberately she reached down and touched the lace with her fingers, then hesitated for about a second.

He hesitated.

When he was back on his feet again and about to reinstall the fuses, however, he hesitated.

Pakistanis initially hesitated to recognise the country since its close ties with Malaysia what they considered as part of Malaya.

At about this time, King John hesitated and sent his sons from the battlefield.

If the second theory is correct, this raises the further question of why the Persians, having hesitated for several days, then attacked.

Initially, Emperor Wilhelm II told the Archduke Franz Ferdinand that Germany was ready to support Austria in all circumstances — even at the risk of a world war, but the Austro-Hungarians hesitated.

Because the de facto administration is recognized only by Turkey, it has had much difficulty arranging foreign financing, and foreign firms have hesitated to invest there.