balking

[ US /ˈbɔkɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /bˈɔːlkɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. stopping short and refusing to go on
    a balky mule
    a balking
    a balky customer
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How To Use balking In A Sentence

  • It doesn’t surprise me that a much more diverse group with specialty constituencies to appease is balking here. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Reminder
  • German banks are balking at writing off Greek debt.
  • Meanwhile, the Washington Post Friday editorially advised a "balking" Berman, "a long time sceptic of the deal" to find a way to help move the deal forward as "it is in America's interest. Zee News : India National
  • Balking at the double-barrelled option, our own compromise was to give them my surname as a middle name, so at least my family connection is maintained.
  • The hardest hit are homeowners who, balking at Iceland's high interest rates, previously took out loans partly in foreign currencies. They have seen repayments soar after a run on the krona.
  • As the bands play, militant hippies outside, balking at the $14 admission price, chant for free music and clash bloodily with police.
  • "You've got a lot of people balking at putting up more money when they are already so underwater, with no hope of recovery," says Feldman.
  • With the Lebanese government balking at an international investigation into the murder, tensions are rising and positions hardening.
  • Recent headlines and letters have unfairly accused Assemblywoman Lupardo of "balking" at a reduction in pay. Undefined
  • ROBERTS: And, of course, as we heard earlier in the program, China really kind of balking on those really tough sanctions that it might take to get North Korea to give up its nuclear program. CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2006
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