5 sentences with 'reluctant'
Example sentences and phrases with the word reluctant and other words derived from it.
• « Tiberius began his rule as a cautious leader who was only reluctant to follow in the footsteps of Augustus as emperor. »
• « Much of the survival of Luther and Protestantism is due to the simple fact that both the Pope and Charles V were reluctant to threaten Frederick the Wise, who was one of the electors of the empire and one of the most powerful nobles, essentially a king in his own right. »
• « Instead, there was a kind of reluctant and pragmatic religious toleration that took root across Europe, the same kind of toleration that had emerged in France half a century earlier at the conclusion of the French Wars of Religion. »
• « American politicians, aware of the bitter debates over Missouri that had led to talk of disunion and war, were reluctant to annex Texas or even to recognise it as a sovereign nation. »