A German blockade cut off food and fuel shipments from farm areas to punish the reluctance of the Dutch to aid the Nazi war effort.

He reacted immediately by giving the first order, in spite of reluctance from his allies, to reveal information on each citizen request about whether there was any data of his / her links with the secret police.

French reluctance to invest in its allies ( especially Polish ) industry, strengthening trade relations ( buying their agricultural products ) and sharing military expertise further weakened the alliance.

Around 670 BC, the Assyrian King Esarhaddon ( 681 – 669 BC ) conquered Lower Egypt, but allowed local kingdoms in Lower Egypt to exist, in order to enlist them as his allies against the Kushite rulers of Upper Egypt, who had been accepted with reluctance.

After some initial reluctance, Elizabeth was able to convince Lucky to see Dr. Kevin Collins.

Because of the Hanoverian reluctance to act in church affairs ( see, for example, George I's actions in the Bangorian Controversy ) and all sides of the religious debates being balanced against one another, the dioceses became tolerant of variation in local practice.

In Ultra Magnus ' mind, he is a follower, not a commander, and his reluctance to change that will see to it that he expends all options before accepting the idea that he is required to lead.

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Seaman writes that this was done, at least in part, because Israel's reluctance to support Philippe Karsenty in the libel action France 2 had brought against him ( see below )— based on an unwillingness to appear to interfere in another state's legal proceedings — was being misinterpreted as a validation of the France 2 report.

Publishers Weekly said that " by lumping this reluctance under the rubric of hatred, Gibson reduces serious policy differences to emotional animus ," while a Townhall. com review notes that " Gibson found countless examples of America-hatred, supporting his thesis that many in the international community would like to see the downfall of America.

Although the previous year's race had been won by a Maserati driven by American Wilbur Shaw, neither Dreyfus nor his team partner René Le Bègue was familiar with the mechanical requirements and the very different rules of racing at Indianapolis ; this problem was exacerbated by both drivers not knowing English, and by the American racing community's reluctance to see a European win the " Great American Race.

Also, Robson and Richards " showed a surprising reluctance to allow any example of natural selection ; their cautious qualification that characters were non-adaptive as far as they could see became, too often, a certainty that they were non-adaptive ; and their arguments were sometimes one-sided.

In this version the player may stand as deep as any other back, but there has been a reluctance to identify formations in American football as having more than one fullback ( or tailback — see below ), although two-fullback systems were not uncommon at one time in rugby.

He also ensured his brother's succession to the throne not through royal command, but through Parliamentary maneuvers and the nation's reluctance to see another civil war so soon after the First and Second English Civil Wars in the 1640s.

What is the hesitation and reluctance for at all ?’ They said that they were reluctant to come in because Shaikh was sitting on the door sill and he would see them.

The Duckworths have three grandsons: Paul ( by Andrea Clayton ), Tommy ( by Lisa Horton ), and Brad ( by Tricia Armstrong ), but didn't see them for a long time due to Terry's reluctance to be a father.

The units of dielectric reluctance are F < sup >− 1 </ sup > ( inverse farads — see daraf ) 1-3.

In a pulsating DC or AC field, the reluctance is the ratio of the amplitude of the " magnetomotive force ” ( MMF ) in a magnetic circuit to the amplitude of the magnetic flux in this circuit .. ( see phasors )

You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

These gentlemen already have done the party harm by their seeming reluctance to vote aid for the depressed areas and by their criticism of Mr. Kennedy for talking about a recession and unemployment.

While some Anglicans claim it for their communion, their views are often nuanced and there is widespread reluctance to ' unchurch ' Christian bodies which lack it.

It is this reluctance which was felt by the Rijksmuseum to reattribute works to other painters ( Abraham van Calraet does not even appear in a Museum catalogue until 1926, and even then he is not given his own entry ) which shows how important it is to art historians that painters are accurately connected to their works — and this is continuously necessary for those of Aelbert Cuyp, as Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter may not in fact be Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter.

However, the Western Allies ' air-to-ground aircraft were so greatly feared out of proportion to their actual tactical success, that following the lead up to Operation Overlord German vehicle crews showed reluctance to move en masse during daylight.

Notified that British aid to Greece and Turkey would end in less than six weeks, and already hostile towards and suspicious of Soviet intentions, because of their reluctance to withdraw from Iran, the Truman administration decided that additional action was necessary.

He chided the senators about their reluctance to debate bills introduced by himself, as noted in the fragments of a surviving speech:

Robinson says that all three Synoptic accounts explain the reluctance of the Temple authorities to arrest Jesus on the spot, as being due to their fear of popular support for John the Baptist.

It appears doubtful, however, that the market will develop fully, given the reluctance of family-held firms to open their books to public scrutiny.

At the Pyrenees, he released 11, 000 Iberian troops who showed reluctance to leave their homeland.

Such images functioned as powerful relics as well as icons, and their images were naturally seen as especially authoritative as to the true appearance of the subject: naturally and especially because of the reluctance to accept mere human productions as embodying anything of the divine, a commonplace of Christian deprecation of man-made " idols ".

Some leading Conservatives ( e. g. Chancellor Ken Clarke ) favoured joining and insisted that Britain retain a completely free choice, whilst increasing numbers of others expressed their reluctance to join.

Between 1994 and 1998 the bike was said not to have had many changes, with Honda engineers reportedly becoming frustrated at Doohan's reluctance to try new innovations such as electronic shifting ( it was only when Rossi came to Honda in 1999 that Honda engineers had their head with Rossi willing to try more innovations ).

Robinson argued that unionist politicians in Northern Ireland should have been consulted as part of the deal, despite their reluctance to share power.

Initially, the Rotarran's crew were beaten and fatalistic, a fact that was made worse by Martok's apparent reluctance to engage Jem ' Hadar forces on their first mission.

At the Pyrenees, he left a detachment of 11, 000 Iberian troops, who showed reluctance to leave their homeland, to garrison the newly conquered region.

Among the ethnic groups, Gypsy / Rroma tended to have higher rates of cohabitation, mainly due to their reluctance to register their marriages officially.

With some reluctance, Honecker allowed them to go — but forced them to go back through East Germany on sealed trains and stripped them of their East German citizenship.

Friends of the Earth was founded in 1969 in the United States by David Brower after his split with the Sierra Club based in part on their reluctance to challenge the construction of nuclear power plants.

However, corrupt officers would often " tax " their crews ' wage to supplement their own and the Royal Navy of the day was infamous for its reluctance to pay.

It ultimately failed because of the reluctance of Scribonianus ' troops, and the suicide of the main conspirators.

Despite his unprecedented use of Army troops to enforce a federal desegregation order at Central High School in Little Rock, Eisenhower was criticized for his reluctance to support the civil rights movement to the degree which activists wanted.

A possible reason for Kilij Arslan's reluctance to renew the battle is that a large proportion of his irregular troops may have been far more interested in securing the plunder they had taken than in continuing the fight, thus leaving his army seriously weakened.

The offensive against Hanover was repeatedly delayed because of Prussia's partial reluctance that the Swedes and the Russians moved troops through Prussian territory.

Wenceslaus led a group of princes who expressed their reluctance to divert any troops from the defense of their own territories, citing fear of invasion from the Duchy of Austria.

Despite initial reluctance to concede men, John of Gaunt finally agreed to levy troops to reinforce the Portuguese army.

The deployment of UN troops was impossible due to the security situation and the reluctance of the Congolese government.

Confederate anger at the thought of blacks fighting them, and their initial reluctance to surrender ( because many of the black troops believed they would only be killed if they surrendered in Federal uniform ) resulted in a tragedy.

Another reason for his reluctance to proceed was intelligence that Union troops were approaching from the east on the Hanover Road.

This reluctance to attack by his enemy was interpreted by the Ottoman Grand Vizier as a loss of morale by the Habsburg troops.