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- verb Present participle of
wile .
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Examples
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Still to come: The GOP might be wiling to go after tax deductions; education reform doesn't look good in the next Congress; an non-governmental panel wields considerable power over Medicare spending; better chairs might save our schools; and a walrus does situps.
Wonkbook: What matters for jobs; the Tea Parties vs. the appropriators; would more stimulus have saved the Dems? Ezra Klein 2010
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Media organizations need to decide "how much weight they're wiling to give to people who complain."
Juan Williams and the year of unairing your opinion Melissa Bell 2010
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It's not how much you spend to run for office, people actually want to know how much you care about their needs and whether you are wiling to make the same kind of investment in their future that you have so aggressively made in your own.
Rev. Romal J. Tune: The Four Billion Dollars in Job Creation that Could Be Discouraging Voters: Electing Politicians Rev. Romal J. Tune 2010
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It's not how much you spend to run for office, people actually want to know how much you care about their needs and whether you are wiling to make the same kind of investment in their future that you have so aggressively made in your own.
Rev. Romal J. Tune: The Four Billion Dollars in Job Creation that Could Be Discouraging Voters: Electing Politicians Rev. Romal J. Tune 2010
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It's not how much you spend to run for office, people actually want to know how much you care about their needs and whether you are wiling to make the same kind of investment in their future that you have so aggressively made in your own.
Rev. Romal J. Tune: The Four Billion Dollars in Job Creation that Could Be Discouraging Voters: Electing Politicians Rev. Romal J. Tune 2010
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At least this republican is wiling to acknowledge the bush administration as well ... rather than stating that American History ended with the Constitution and began again in January 2009!
Drilling regulator 'an agency in crisis,' Republican says 2010
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(It seems to me that) Indonesians (are wiling to) forget the crimes done by their leaders, as long as they are wealthy.
Global Voices in English » Indonesia: Soeharto’s son aims to be president? 2009
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Cobra lasts 18 months, then your on your own, even if your perfectly wiling to keep paying the high Cobra premium.
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Is there no possibility he is a perfectly sane zealot that wanted to kill some Americans so bad that he was wiling to die to do it?
Pantsbomber psyche laid bare in messageboard archives (corrected) Boing Boing 2009
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It's not how much you spend to run for office, people actually want to know how much you care about their needs and whether you are wiling to make the same kind of investment in their future that you have so aggressively made in your own.
Rev. Romal J. Tune: The Four Billion Dollars in Job Creation that Could Be Discouraging Voters: Electing Politicians Rev. Romal J. Tune 2010
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