单词 | political will |
释义 | > as lemmaspolitical will political will n. political intention or desire (in early use not as a fixed collocation); (later) spec. the firm intention or commitment on the part of a government to carry through a policy, esp. one which is not immediately successful or popular. ΚΠ 1794 Times 22 Sept. 1/6 Lecointre..administered to the political will of Robespierre. 1848 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 25 Nov. 349/1 The fulness of time was come when it was impossible for political will to avert a natural necessity. 1945 O. Marx tr. E. Koch-Weser Hitler & Beyond xi. 48 Not all the cabinets had the political will to dissolve the Reichswehr. 1972 Lat. Amer. (Nexis) 15 Sept. 293 Without directing private resources into those areas, or vastly increasing public resources through taxation—for neither of which the government has the political will..—it is difficult to see the new measures as more than a palliative. 2002 U.S. News & World Rep. 28 Oct. 72/2 This will enable Saddam to play rope-a-dope with the international community, fencing with inspectors until..the political will to bring Iraq to heel expires. < as lemmas |
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