1.   And the initially reluctant Welch is soon matching Irwin step for rubber-limbed step.

2.   Ashitaka tries to run interference between the two sides and bonds with the initially reluctant Mononoke in the process.

3.   Adam Guettel, the young songwriter, was initially reluctant to do the concert of his work scheduled for Wednesday night at Town Hall.

4.   Britain was initially reluctant to embrace the sanctions against Austria.

5.   But her husband was initially reluctant.

6.   But some residents were initially reluctant to leave, he said, pushing others ahead of them.

7.   Cadwell, who lives in Boise, Idaho, with her third husband, Bruce Cadwell, said she was initially reluctant to see the film.

8.   Clinton was initially reluctant to assume the risks of foreign policy leadership.

9.   Diamond said that the tribe was initially reluctant to take legal action to reclaim land under aboriginal rights.

10.   From the outset, the French have been the most ardent advocates of intervention, pressing other, initially reluctant nations to join them.