This involved more than coaxing reluctant politicians.

Marcos, describing herself as a reluctant candidate for congress in 1998, now describes herself as a reluctant politician.

And the result is peculiar: on key issues, reluctant Democratic politicians are being dragged by their base into taking highly popular positions.

Even the most reluctant politicians had to admit that the evidence was against a small group of Islamist agitators.

He was actually a reluctant politician.

In the later books, she becomes a reluctant politician.

Thompson was always a reluctant politician.

Yet what she sees as cultural obstacles to reform look more like convenient excuses by reluctant politicians and executives.

It was his misfortune that what were admirable qualities in a scholar and pastor were defects in a reluctant politician.

The general, while a reluctant politician, nevertheless is championing the ballot as superior to the bullet in the volkstaat cause.