Their concern focuses particularly on the Protestants, who have been more reluctant participants in the process.

Jimmy Connors, on the other hand, was a reluctant participant, and it showed.

It's a game in which he has been a reluctant participant for most of his life.

After a moment she said, 'For a reluctant participant, that's not bad.'

Behind his calm, hooded eyes he was playing the role of the reluctant participant.

So on a spectator level, they are often reluctant participants.

But then we became reluctant participants in the national sport of paper gathering.

She seemed a reluctant participant in all this, and I won't be surprised if she's willing to spill the whole sordid story.

"It was the worst funeral I have ever been to in my life," says one of the reluctant participants.

But that approach depends on convincing Japan and other reluctant participants.