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Just as the north thinks it has good reason to hold the line, the south is loth to let the 2005 agreement go.

The bank, jealous of its independence from government, will be loth to go further and buy public debt, as the Fed plans to.

The next government's main job will be to sort all this out. Yet politicians seem loth even to talk about it.

Rio, which had just taken on its current chief executive, Tom Albanese, was loth to entertain an offer from its archrival.

Mr Netanyahu is loth to lose any of his coalition partners and reluctant to open a rift within his own Likud.

SADC's leaders, especially its younger ones, are increasingly loth to see their region dragged down by an ageing autocrat.

But if he fails even to hint that Christians should be tolerated, he may find America's Congress increasingly loth to help bail him out.

But locals loth to let foreigners make profits have forced a delay until after the general election due in January.

Zanu-PF would be loth to admit publicly that it was backing down over anything, least of all in the face of foreigners and whites.

If it cannot find one, the German government will be loth to provide bridging finance.

Pushtuns, members of the country's largest ethnic group, to which most insurgents belong, are loth to sign up.

SUITORS keep knocking on the door of Iraq's oil ministry but the people inside are still coyly loth to say "come in" .

Pride is a factor; Texas is a national leader in energy production (as well as consumption), and loth to let that go.

Indeed, the lifetime employment system makes bosses loth to rock the boat (and means they have few other job options if they do).

NATO aircraft cannot play much of a part since Colonel Qaddafi's men are using civilian buildings the Western alliance is loth to bomb.

America and Britain are loth to do anything that might jeopardise their links with Pakistan's army and its intelligence services.

Loth to share power, politicians argue that ordinary citizens cannot be trusted with too much.

But in China, where 80% of the world's fake goods are thought to be produced, officials are loth to crack down on a thriving local business.

But most governments are loth to put their consumers at the mercy of the world's imperfect markets.

But China is loth to allow the yuan to appreciate rapidly. And it will not be pressured by high consumer-price inflation, as it was in 2008.

But it misses a crucial change that economists are loth to accept, though technologists have been concerned about it for several years.

China appears unwilling to help with even cosmetic concessions, and has been loth to define where it thinks the border runs.

The new Egyptian order, while it will be loth to break the peace treaty with Israel, will not take the Mubarak line.

Governments throughout the region have been loth to punish the perpetrators of honour crimes.

It may also entrench deflation. A shortage of workers might push up wage costs, but companies will be loth to invest in new factories.

South Africa was also loth to unfreeze funds controlled by the colonel to bolster the new rulers in Tripoli.

But equally he is plainly loth to let that failed state slide further into the domain of al-Qaeda.

The Ocampo loggers' sawmill is old, yet they are loth to upgrade it for a less labour-intensive model.

Worried about unemployment, the Chinese are loth to let their currency, the yuan, appreciate much faster than at today's snail's pace.

Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, is loth to lose any of his partners and has told lawyers to find a compromise.

But the Pakistani army is loth to divert too many forces from the Indian border, until the peace process with India makes some progress.

But Mr Kibaki still seems loth to share power, let alone contemplate rerunning the election under international supervision.

Aristocratic families were loth to stump up dowries for more than one daughter. The rest were walled away.

China now finds itself in the awkward position of having to pick sides between the Koreas, which it is loth to do.

The ECB is also loth to soil its hands with public debt, though banks flush with central-bank cash are keen buyers of such low-risk assets.

The Gulf Arabs are loth to cough up the cash they promised to support the rebels.

Whether the UN stays or goes, outsiders are increasingly loth to throw good money after bad.

But MOD officials, some of whom have prospered from the current mess, are loth to register anyone.

ButMrKibaki still seems loth to share power, let alone contemplate rerunning the election under international supervision.

Umm Qasr is a haven for Iraq's smugglers, so many companies are loth to store expensive equipment there; they may never see it again.

But Beijing is loth to let democracy take root in this "Special Administrative Region" lest it sets a precedent elsewhere in China.

Until then, France and Italy had been loth to hurt the GNMTC.

It is understandable that Mrs Merkel, in particular, should be loth to embrace bold new rescue plans.

Start-ups are especially needy now, since many banks are loth to lend even to well-established companies.

Some are also loth to risk their considerable business interests in Myanmar.

Having at last got China's attention, it is loth to let it go.

The most costly programmes include education and Medicaid, which voters are loth to cut.

Too often the aid lobbies have cheered them on, loth to acknowledge the flaws in people they need to prove that aid works.

Both. With loan losses still climbing, banks are loth to throw money around.

Ministers have been loth to debate its details.

So the sales gap suggests that debt-laden households are unable or loth to borrow.

Yet politicians seem loth even to talk about it.

Among its potential partners in the region, Kenya is loth to get involved.

Politicians will be loth to cut the value of their electorate's biggest asset, however.

Loth to give up its goal of balancing the budget by 2011, Germany was at first reluctant to adopt a fiscal stimulus.

Germans were loth to give up the D-mark in 1999 and have never warmed to the euro.

Of the veto-wielders, only China, which remains loth to punish Iran, stayed mute.

Banks are loth to lend to each other for the same reason (and fear of their own demise is leading them to hoard cash).

But, like knights of old, AIDS-vaccine researchers are loth to quit.

And the army, always loth to do police work, may withdraw too soon.

Having reacted furiously to Mr Lee, Mr Kim's regime will be loth to do so.

NSN was loth to compete on prices before Rajeev Suri became its boss in 2009, says Bengt Nordstrom of Northstream, a consulting firm.

In the meantime the Obama administration is loth to raise the gas tax.

They are loth to lend because they are worried that they do not have enough capital to meet losses on their existing loans.

But the creditors are loth to accept that they are part of the problem.

What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?

many there remain loth to improve Gaza's odds.

Another reason is that it is loth to give ammunition to the protectionist lobby.

He was loth to burden his two daughters.

Kenya and Ethiopia are loth to step in. Neither can afford a big military offensive.

That is one governance test that California's politicians and unions will be loth to take.

Banks, fearful for their own survival, are loth to lend to anyone (even each other).

Opinion polls suggest a large majority of Japanese people are loth even to take part in a trial.

He was loth to believe that one so wise could err , that one so lofty could stoop to deceive.

but as in the first place I should be very loth to waste so much powder upon them, my store being now within the quantity of one barrel;

the old stereotype of bureaucrats loth to surrender cash or power

Heaven only knows how loth I am to part