7 sentences with 'willingness'
Example sentences and phrases with the word willingness and other words derived from it.
• « Dr. Epstein's refusal to accept defeat and his willingness to take calculated risks were what allowed him, in the early 1980s, to open new horizons for pediatric neurosurgery. »
• « The tragedy of Edsel's willingness to drop down to allow himself to be trampled on was that Henry did not draw the conclusion that his son loved him, admired him, revered him. . . . »
• « The Abbasids' success in governing a huge and diverse empire was due in part to their willingness to follow Persian traditions of governance (a model that would later be replicated by Turkish and Mongol rulers). »
• « Peaceful change might not be possible, given the willingness of the forces of order to use violence to achieve their ends. »
• « A very recognisably modern kind of connection was made in the press between patriotic loyalty and the willingness to fight, kill and die for one's country. »
• « Each great power needed the support of its allies, and was therefore willing to intercede even if its own interests were not directly threatened. This willingness to go to war for the sake of the alliance meant that even a relatively minor event could provoke the outbreak of all-out war. That is precisely what happened. »
• « Modernism, socially, was a reaction against the complacency of the bourgeoisie, its willingness to wage wars for empire and notions of nationalism. »