How To Use Baulk In A Sentence

It is true: but liberality baulkes, and feares covetousnesse and niggardize, more a great deale then prodigallity; so does zeale lukewarmnes and coldnesse, more then too much heate and forwardnesse; the defect is more opposite and dangerous to some vertues, then the excesse. A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich
These Mesolithic cultures (Mesolithic, meaning Middle Stone Age, describes postIce Age European hunter-gatherers) achieved some degree of social complexity in Scandinavia, where richly decorated individuals were buried in cemeteries by 5500 B.C.E. These same cultures were the indigenous societies of Europe, farmers who first spread north and west across central Europe from the Balkans after 4500 B.C.E. 1 3. Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe
When the gentleman who guided me through the bush left me on the side of a pali, I discovered that Kahele, though strong, gentle, and sure-footed, possesses the odious fault known as balking, and expressed his aversion to ascend the other side in a most unmistakable manner. The Hawaiian Archipelago
Some may balk at the frivolous approach to taking drugs, but few series are as vocal in their celebration of youthful individuality. Times, Sunday Times
Brown had been hobbled since training camp with a balky left knee that caused him pain from the second day of practice.

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At first she baulked at the idea, saying she no longer performed those pieces.
The Orthodox agreed to cooperate, but balked at merging the two efforts.
Even if you do baulk at some of the more outlandish examples of soporifics cited or quibble with a theory or two, Martin's message is strangely comforting.
Brown had been hobbled since training camp with a balky left knee that caused him pain from the second day of practice.
An original plan to make sure all taxis were painted black-and-yellow was dumped after cabbies baulked at the cost.
That might sound like a reasonable deal, but many would balk at the often intrusive way such information is being used. Times, Sunday Times
The medal that came along with it meanwhile will, Larsson said, be brought out and looked at when he is in his dotage to remind him of his achievements, the Swede baulking at the suggestion he might be tempted to gift it to a close one.
He visited all the Balkan countries, meeting with eminent public figures.
His weapon of choice is a deadly flail and he doesn't balk at finishing off wounded soldiers - or at sneaking up on them and strangling them.
In the Balkans these insurrections resulted in a gradual liberation of most of the oppressed peoples.
If Francis, James, Wells and Scola can fill those needs (and T-Mac's balky back holds up), the Rockets just might be able to take the next step in their quest.
Even the most hawkish leaders baulked at countenancing a right of pre-emptive action when the world's principal disputants both had nuclear missile submarines designed to evade a surprise attack.
Both the United States and Britain insist that, to keep the country from imploding, it is essential that the Balkan nation remain under the political authority of an internationally appointed "High Representative," who governs the nation's affairs. Elmira Bayrasli: Electing an Independent Bosnia: The High Representative Must Go
MPs may balk at an eviction notice. Times, Sunday Times
When actors baulked at speaking lines in a foreign language - or their accents were execrable - native-speakers were brought in to play the parts.
But there was nothing preordained about the outcome of events in the Balkans in the late 1940s.
For a few days, the big banks responsible for allocating the world's capital baulked at doing business with each other, fearful that their counterparts' credit would go bad.
Some people have lost their jobs and others balked at his idea of having only two national centres. Times, Sunday Times
Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments.
Micky Conlan would roll the ball in front, then run, pick it up, baulk an imaginary opponent, run close to the boundary, kick the goal then scuttle back, laughing.
Catiline was baulked of their expected co-operation, and the communication with the Allobroges for the moment was interrupted.
Doing the humane thing—i.e., something good for the people of Haiti or Bosnia or Kosovo—could also be the smart and, to use the word commandeered by critics of such policies, the realistic thing, since it was good for the United States to avert instability in the Caribbean and the Balkans. The Great Experiment
MPs may balk at an eviction notice. Times, Sunday Times
Some are separated by grass baulks, others by stone walls.
Or, if the price makes you balk, at least have afternoon tea to drink in the atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
Those who have already spent time and money collecting themselves a full set of miniature fighting monsters may balk at the prospect of starting the lengthy process all over again.
I must say that my main reaction, having read this en route from Switzerland to Belgium after giving a conference presentation on the Balkans and the Caucasus, is that actually the Israel/Palestine conflict is a lot less special than its protagonists like to think it is. September Books 21) In the Land of Israel
Fresh research suggests that, while people will happily put up with voluntary restrictions on movement, they balk at the idea of compulsory quarantine. Times, Sunday Times
In his concluding remarks, he rather defensively explains: ‘This book was always premised to be about my country, not about the Balkans or any other foreign country.’
And then in the sixth it was a balk again, allowing Georgia Tech to take the lead.
As the boy led her from the stable she came out with her ears laying back and her short tail switching; and I said to myself, "here will be a job breaking a kicker and balker. Twenty Years of Hus'ling
On the afternoon following the colonel's visit to Mink Run, old Peter, when he came for Phil, was obliged to stay long enough to see the antics of the mechanical mule; and had not that artificial animal suddenly refused to kick, and lapsed into a characteristic balkiness for which there was no apparent remedy, it might have proved difficult to get Phil away. The Colonel's Dream
In three hundred large-format pages, 60 million Frenchmen merit a single paragraph, while the fifty thousand Vlachs of the Balkans and the fifty thousand Faroe Islanders of Denmark receive careful dissection over many pages.4 And why not? Bloodlust
If we don't have room for a glover, blacksmith, steamfitter, cobbler, hooper, chimney sweep and Balkan restaurant, what good are we? Archive 2006-10-01
A survey carried out by the council says that much of the land has been mined below the legal limit, and there were no baulks of peat left to prevent the area from being completely drained.
They practically balked at the idea that I might have some abnormal obstruction to recognition. Times, Sunday Times
In case the balky internet connection is insufficiently irritating, the hotel is also providing me USA Today on a complimentary basis.
Another proves to be an exceedingly balky milker, creating all sorts of frustrations. Ah, Wilderness
In Aaronovitch's telling, events in the Balkans become purely symbolic.
Specifically: Consumers may balk if TV sets become too computerlike and complicated. The death of the URL | FactoryCity
Orson Welles was a child prodigy, too, and of course he developed a sort of monomania which kind of baulked his career. Why VARK leaves me in the DARK « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
Thraco-Phrygian peoples who had overrun the Balkans, occupied Thrace and Macedonia, and crossed into Asia Minor. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
I imagine many CoffeeHousers baulked at that last bit – but “good, honest spad” is not a contradiction in terms. Special advisers do good work too
Westerners balk at the prospect of snake on the menu.
Clients balk at the price, but usually come back after shopping around, he says. Times, Sunday Times
At the Spree, General Rybalko led his tanks splashing into the water, without waiting for bridging gear.
A good example is the Bora wind which is a cold north-easterly wind which blows in winter down the east coast of the Adriatic from the Balkan mountains.
Balkan film directors, actors and students in the field will join the discussion section of Dionisia.
Now, some of his foreign policies are still idiocy -- such as balking at distributing condoms, or the global gag rule on abortion -- but at least Bush did some things that were helpful, and he spent a lot of money on it. Chris Weigant: My 2008 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 2]
I can understand why audiences may balk at the symmetry of the plot and the serendipity of the cast. Times, Sunday Times
-- Afghanistan and Pakistan "to stabilize the security situation;" in fact, a major effort may be undertaken to destabilize it as part of a broader agenda to stoke violence, increase Washington's presence in the region, double US forces in Afghanistan to 60,000 or more according to recent reports, and "Balkanize" each country, Iraq and possibly Syria into separate autonomous states; and Obama v. Richard Falk on Israel and Occupied Palestine
Turkey; he did not claim any territory south of the Balkan, nor any part of Roumelia -- not even Adrianople -- only Constantinople with its neighborhood. Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
In one widely reported case, an American pilot went so far as to throw a balky steward off the plane.
Your husband may balk at the idea of counselling because it is not something men of his generation generally value. Times, Sunday Times
They might balk at that sort of money and refuse to pick up the tab, which was a scary thought.
Jibbing, or "balking" as the Americans term it, is a detestable vice. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
Rival claims to Macedonian territory caused conflict in the Balkans.
The World Customs Organisation ranked Bulgarian Customs first in the number of heroin detections along the ‘Balkan Route’ in 2002, he said.
To get a taste of Olympic cross-country skiing, I didn't balk at a longer drive.
Amid the torrent of music coming out of the Balkans in the past year or two, this session, recorded in the historic town of Mostar, stands out by virtue of its simplicity and its aura of rapt melancholia.
And for this reason she hectored him knowing how difficult and balky he tended to be, especially towards her.
As one of my Kosovo friends said last year, this was one of the least unexpected developments in the Balkans in the last two decades: the ground had been well prepared, and the choreography is being duly executed. February Books 14) Dublin Castle and the 1916 Rising
The belt comprises subalkaline andesites, trachyandesites, dacites, rhyolites, trachyrhyolites, and granodiorites, granites, granosyenites and monzonites, and developed along an active continental margin.
Many will balk at the suggestion that Megan's Law should be expanded to include warrants, dropped charges, and even acquittals.
It was a time of relative calm in the Balkans, and Belgrade was suddenly a lively city.
‘That is how we lose the passengers' faith and money and our name is associated with only negative emotions,’ a Balkan flight attendant said.
We say I balked at the price, but what results! Times, Sunday Times
The big draw for me, though, is the cooler along the south wall, which is jammed with Greek olives, cheese, anchovies, halvah and other specialties, including hummus, tarama and Balkan-style yogurt.
Clients balk at the price, but usually come back after shopping around, he says. Times, Sunday Times
Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a $24m profit had turned into a $20m deficit.
He did not baulk at holding off carrying out his orders, Damin noticed with relief. TREASON KEEP
Later, the Balkans provided a crisis of moral weight sufficient to rival those earlier times - especially for those writers and journalists, mostly on the center-left, who had the courage and intrepidity to go there.
First the Gulf, then the Balkan campaigns honed the syntax of 24-hour reporting almost to the point of banality.
Lesser actors might have baulked at playing an IRA terrorist or an incomprehensible Irish boxer or, as with Benjamin Button, a kind of half-Gump, half-Kermit dimwit. But not Pitt.
We have to approach this challenge conscious of the fact that we do not unwittingly promote the interests of those whose aim has always been to balkanise the country along ethnic and racial lines. POLITICAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, TO THE 49TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA
But motorists balk at the idea. Times, Sunday Times
AMERICAN POLICY INthe Balkans through the first half of the 1990s can only be described as feckless. Sands of Empire
So when the builders told her she was dreaming, baulked at her unusual ideas and promptly doubled their cost, that was all the encouragement the business woman needed.
Anyone who baulked at recent anomalies in The Hour, when modern idioms slipped into the 50s drama, will once again be reaching for their etymological dictionaries. Chickens: What The Inbetweeners did next
MPs may balk at an eviction notice. Times, Sunday Times
The question must be asked: Should one of the main architects of the Balkan wars go down in history as a convicted embezzler or a convicted war criminal?
After finishing second to Bulgaria in their qualifying group, Croatia beat Slovenia 2-1 on aggregate in a Balkan play-off.
Thereafter they moved around the Balkans, sometimes in open war with the Romans, sometimes bound by treaty.
The farming industry was crying out for a small motorised vehicle that could handle hills even a horse baulked at.
Robert Melville, who appeared to have been using some soothing language — “No! no! no! I tell thee, no! I will place a petard against the door rather than be baulked by a profligate woman, and bearded by an insolent footboy.” The Abbot
Balki Bartkomous from Perfect Strangers: Balki was a rambunctious but lovable roommate from the far off land of Mypos. Metal Movie | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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The project is one of the first collaborative projects to be carried out with foreign partners in the Western Balkans since the end of conflict.
Some conservative Christian groups balk at what they feel is the glorification of witchcraft and wizardry.
Instead of questioning the possibility of a perfect ready-made within the Balkan context, Vangeli has posed the question of fabricating.
Or, if the price makes you balk, at least have afternoon tea to drink in the atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, web users in the United States already pay far more for Internet access, and have far balkier web access, than patrons overseas. John Dougherty: The Clock Is Running Out on Net Neutrality
National Party tried over decades to balkanise South Africa and failed. STATEMENT ON THE IFP CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSALS
The craft also had a supply of food - it's not like you can pull up to a row-through window and order anything - and a balky water-purification device to desalinize ocean water, plus an assortment of antibiotics and first-aid supplies. Undefined
The flora, especially on the limestone which is one of the most active centers of floristic speciation in the Balkans, includes many rare species such as the Pirin poppy, Papaver pirinica, golden aquilegia Aquilegia aurea, yellow gentian Gentiana lutea and edelweiss Leontopodium alpinum. Pirin National Park, Bulgaria
When you try to boot up the game, it balks: The mouse driver is missing again.
He was one of his generals who had built up a powerful position in the Balkans at the head of his federate army; in order to remove this threat the emperor ordered him to rule Italy in his name.
She had balked, not stupid enough to go to his turf, alone, so he could do her bodily harm.
The soft underbelly of Europe, the Balkans, which is constantly being destabilized, is a great weakening of all of European civilization.
He quickly baulked at the cost to the exchequer.
Her manner was boyish, hoydenish at times, and although convent-trained, she was inclined to balk at restraint in any form. The Financier
Rival claims to Macedonian territory caused conflict in the Balkans.
Among other particular features of Albanian and other Balkan languages are a postpositive definite article and the absence of a verbal infinitive.
The Berlin settlement of 1878 disappointed Russian hopes in the Balkans.
There was a boggy place in the road but we could go through it as long as neither horse in the team balked.
Northern Ireland and the Balkans demonstrate that the dark side of religion is truly devilish!
I can understand why audiences may balk at the symmetry of the plot and the serendipity of the cast. Times, Sunday Times
Milner potted green to level the frame scores but left a sitting brown after attempting an ambitious pot along the baulk cushion.
But motorists balk at the idea. Times, Sunday Times
By this time a French “75” — a gun captured by the Turks from the Serbians in the Balkan war — was pouring her shell at the rate of about one in ten seconds to the neck. Archive 2009-03-01
The North Pole, he said, was not so very far away, and the difficulties in the way of reaching it were not, on the face of them, so very great: human ingenuity had achieved a thousand things a thousand times more difficult; yet in spite of over half-a-dozen well-planned efforts in the nineteenth century, and thirty-one in the twentieth, man had never reached: always he had been baulked, baulked, by some seeming chance -- some restraining Hand: and herein lay the lesson -- _herein the warning_. The Purple Cloud
It is also a story of budgetary and bureaucratic politics producing a device that, however miraculous, wound up being slower, balkier and less useful than it might have been. We Can See Clearly Now
He balked at making the suggestion.
When you try to boot up the game, it balks: The mouse driver is missing again.
Your husband may balk at the idea of counselling because it is not something men of his generation generally value. Times, Sunday Times
Four months later, in June, the assassination of an archduke in the Balkans led to World War I, which has also been called “the Third Balkan War.” Bloodlust
This is the Balkan - a florilegium of contradictions within contraventions, the mawkish and the jaded, the charitable and the deleterious, the feckless and the bumptious, evanescent and exotic, Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
Thin reasoning perhaps, but the bassoon and double bass duet in the "Menuet" has an earthy Balkan jocularity and the whole work is vigorously charming. Brad Hill: Salonen Brings Hungarian Echoes to the NY Philharmonic
Nationalistic thugs who double as acrobats from the fictional Balkan country of Karonia, The Fearsome Foot-Fighters are masters of savate, a French form of kickboxing.
We've seen that dissolve as more and more ethnicities don't want to just blend into one amorphous mass but be recognized and respected on their own, and you see a lot of "breakaways" and "balkanization. WordPress.com News
Superior claims may baulk inferior ones, but the liquidator's duty is to realise the assets of all in accordance with their rights.
Ibn-Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the 10th century, describes Balkh as built of clay, with ramparts and six gates, and extending half a parasang. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
That might sound like a reasonable deal, but many would balk at the often intrusive way such information is being used. Times, Sunday Times
The losers launched one last attack but who was there to balk them, none other than Johnny Nevin, who ventured from his own left wing to cover the right wing raid.
But when the time came for the annual bail-out, the recession-strapped Culture Ministry balked.
For all its harshness, Ladakh's is a fragile environment, and purists might balk at the kind of meal my hosts cooked that night.
Balkan Airlines had a scheduled flight through Cairo and Kenya weekly landing in Johannesburg.
Zoroastrianism is one of the world's oldest religions and was founded by Zarathustra, who is believed to have lived in the ancient city of Bactria, now called Balkh and about 30 kilometres north of Cheshma-e-Shafa. News
Apart from the signature sausages of Serbian meats -- the unencased cylinders of minced beef known as cevapcici (in both pork and lamb mixes) -- there's a large selection of animal proteins such as pljeskavica, the substantial cevap in burger form; various chicken parts including bacon-wrapped breast and bacon-wrapped livers; snappy paprika-spiked sausages; and pork schnitzel, all culminating in the house specialty, the leskobacki opanak, sort of a Balkan Bacon Explosion, a 500-gram bacon-wrapped cevap with a core of ham and Swiss. Chicago Reader
A reverberant melodica opens to a stable kick drum, the Balkan effect softer, more Black Ark-ish. Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Thievery's Rastas and Austin's Latin Soul
Baucus may want to avoid bein 'balked at, perhaps, by further bringin' down the cost of this brutal healthcare bill to about half-a-trillion or less. Baucus plans changes to his own health care proposal
A survey carried out by the council says that much of the land has been mined below the legal limit, and there were no baulks of peat left to prevent the area from being completely drained.
Anyone think CI Silver will baulk at paying me offshore in Zimbabwean blood diamonds or my idea to source all police catering at the same place? on February 28, 2010 at 10: 29 pm inspectorgadget Satisfied? Confident? You Will Be…… « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The operation known as Rurik's Hammer, the lightning military conquest of all of Scandinavia, had been designed to solidify popular support for the resurrected Soviet government at home despite the rationing, the purges, and the KGB crackdowns; to cow a fragmented and weakened NATO already over-extended in the war-ravaged Balkans; and to remind continental Europe of the might of Soviet arms. Countdown
Even the most accommodating of employers would balk at such demands.
Some people have lost their jobs and others balked at his idea of having only two national centres. Times, Sunday Times
Fans of vampire lore balked at the undoing of the genre [...] breanna, on January 23rd, 2009 at 1: 08 pm Said: well Twilight isnt emo (not once did anyone cut theirself). but i agree with you with the thing about everyone obbesesed with these books? they are good i agree but not fall down love over. Book Review: Twilight | Heretical Ideas Magazine
Roma language, oifficially Romani chib, consists of several dialects, such as the Vlax Romani spoken by an estimated 1.5 million people, followed by Balkan, Carpathian and Sinti dialects spoken by several hundred thousand people each. IPS Inter Press Service
Chechnya had started out in 1990 quite similar to other Muslim regions such as Tatarstan or Kabardino-Balkaria. The Return
For the foot-tapping, we must turn to the folksy Balkan dance melodies, the bumpy 'New Age' arrangement of a passamezzo by Mainerio and Pickett's bongo-enhanced version of a chanson by Le Jeune. AvaxHome
This comes as no surprise to Balkan-watchers who have been following the evolving tragedy in the country.
And depleted uranium seemed harmless in routine handling - until several Italian soldiers who served in the Balkans died of leukemia.
Democrats have balked at the governor's proposal to cap pain-and-suffering recoveries at $250,000 and to create an indemnity fund to subsidize treatment of brain-damaged infants. Budget Deal Takes Shape
We also describe the affiliation index of balkanization, similarity of information resources and offer the conditions under which virtual balkanization emerges.
A good example is the Bora wind which is a cold north-easterly wind which blows in winter down the east coast of the Adriatic from the Balkan mountains.
We accept working regimes, though admittedly more splendid salaries, that earlier generations would balk at. Times, Sunday Times
Russia replied by opening up a new theatre of war in the Balkans.
Among other particular features of Albanian and other Balkan languages are a postpositive definite article and the absence of a verbal infinitive.
They stand on battlements in places of great importance to us: on Israel's border, and Iraq's, in the Mediterranean between two NATO allies, in Europe on the border of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to deter a wider Balkan conflict, and in the Caribbean. Letter To Congress On Funds For Un Peacekeeping
It has been claimed that Spurs "baulked" at Coventry City's asking fee but the Sky Blues chairman insists he didn't quote any figures during the late bid to sign the IcCoventry
The label balked and dropped the band rather than "waste" any more money on anti-commercial junk. MetalSucks
Masterminded by founders and senior pastors Brian and Bobbie Houston no self-respecting mega-church is seen dead these days without an alliterating husband-and-wife team at the helm, Hillsong's brand of 'prosperity theology' found a hungry market in Sydney's affluent, conservative Baulkham Hills district during the 1990s. Christopher Price: Australian Idolatry: Evangelical Christians Resurrecting the Music Industry
It is transmogrified by Greek and Bulgarian investors into a Balkan business hub.
Maddock's horse balked and reared as a mercenary snatched at its reins.
Critics fear it would Balkanize the public into warring factions, but that is what happens under our current one-size-fits-all approach. Andrew Coulson: A "Winn" for Education and Freedom of Conscience
You may balk at the cost of your highlights, but there are far more preposterously priced haircuts going on. Times, Sunday Times
To the north, the mountains wind and smoothly melt into the Pre-Balkan region and the Danube plain; while to the south steep mountain slopes tower above a series of hollows and fields.
It may not be a money-spinner - conventional hoteliers would balk at the thought of changing the flowers or turning paying guests away on a whim - but if archdukes are sleeping in your bedrooms and Sean Connery's in the bar, who cares?
Hospitals closer to his home baulked at admitting him, he said.
This ballet mixes elements of folk dance from the Balkans with eurhythmics in order to tell the story of the beautiful Yana, her fiancé Momchil and the Dragon.
The Balkans continue to occupy centre stage in world affairs.
Russia replied by opening up a new theatre of war in the Balkans.
NASA officials also continue to spar with lawmakers from both sides of the aisle who say that the agency is balking at congressionally imposed plans for manned exploration of the solar system.
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Althouse: "I had to set aside that obsolescent hippie balkiness... "I had to set aside that obsolescent hippie balkiness..."
I have talked to several organisations in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector about doing something similar (see post), but most have (so far) baulked at creating online communities to build an engagement with their target audiences. element14 shows what can be done, and it is a project that I will monitor with interest over the months ahead. Element14 – a B2B online community « pwcom 2.0
Now compare things with the movie industry, in which "progress" too often counts as finding some new way to Balkanize the market a little further -- in the process, disabling features in people's homes. Notes on the digital-music business: Things could be worse
However, the government has baulked at the estimated £2.4 billion cost of the tax breaks and is scrapping them this year.
Despite being slightly baulked by Thinus Delport it didn't matter as Hickie chased on and got there first to score.
He changed power-plant rules affecting emissions, a move favored by industry, and has balked at forcing big ships to clean their smokestack pollutants.
You may balk at the cost of your highlights, but there are far more preposterously priced haircuts going on. Times, Sunday Times
The Balkan pair view Russia differently.
I can understand why audiences may balk at the symmetry of the plot and the serendipity of the cast. Times, Sunday Times
Some people have lost their jobs and others balked at his idea of having only two national centres. Times, Sunday Times
How ironic, then, that Bush's deceptive subtlety has enabled her to investigate the kind of subject matter even the most brazen hip-hop queen would baulk at covering, such as paedophiliac desire, incest, cradle-snatching and, in the blackly humorous "Heads We're Dancing", the quandary of a woman who realises she's been dancing with Adolf Hitler. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
By arbitrarily using RST packets in a manner at odds with TCP/IP standards, Comcast threatens to Balkanize the open standards that are the foundation of the Internet. Boing Boing
Deprived of the Internet by a balky cell phone modem, the habit of daily blogging has proven hard to break.
Finally, and possibly most importantly, what Balkin fails to acknowledge is that when it comes to the law-making procedures, the Court has not historically taken a functionalist approach, but instead has adhered to a very rigorous formalist approach. The Volokh Conspiracy » Balkin on the “Slaughter Solution”
Balked of Alfred, she would find Harry Washington a more than acceptable alternative.
The balky elevator has delivered the jumpers to a tiny platform contained within the tower.
Fresh research suggests that, while people will happily put up with voluntary restrictions on movement, they balk at the idea of compulsory quarantine. Times, Sunday Times
After releasing two albums for 4AD, Baltimore's cabaret-postpunk trio Celebration balked at resubmitting itself to the cycles of industry and set about releasing its third album, "Hello Paradise," independently, offering fans a chance — a la Radiohead — to pay what they wish to own the album. Going Gaga for Beats and Tunes
But as the boy reached the age of maturity and the boyhood locks were shorn from his head, she balked at the prospect of yielding the throne to this half-royal heir.
We say I balked at the price, but what results! Times, Sunday Times
However, there are some unusual Russian and Balkan sauerkrauts tinted amber with quince and pink with beetroot.
Some people have lost their jobs and others balked at his idea of having only two national centres. Times, Sunday Times
Both peoples continue to draw on traditional Balkan stereotypes, which were reinforced in the recent Socialist era but which stem from much older folk memories.
Having been baulked on his second run, Campbell had a re-run, in which he made full use of the clear track to break the 94s barrier and secure victory.
When his company probes management structures, exposing the fact that bosses are party hacks or people appointed because of connections, the clients often balk.
Though he's chained up with other "lycan" slaves, werewolf messiah Lucian (Michael Sheen) pursues a love that dare not howl its name with vampire princess Sonja (Rhona Mitra), while her aristocratic dad, Viktor (Bill Nighy), skulks around like a Balkan Ming the Merciless. NashvilleScene.com
Somehow or other even a British citizen with more than the usual stupidity of our race as to foreign languages can make himself understood in the Balkan Peninsula, which is so polyglottic that its inhabitants understand signs very well.) Bulgaria
There is a narrative of Balkan history which sees the whole 20th century as a long struggle to create nation-states out of the ruins of empire.
The Koidu base is complaining of congested data-network links, a balky router and malfunctioning wireless-network nodes.
Arab states have balked at a U.S. request to offer some gestures of normalization to Israel, such as overflight rights for civilian aicraft, in exchange for some Israeli flexibility on settlements. Undefined
Team scouts think a balky right thumb will force Warner to retire.
Parents concerned about allergies may balk at the idea of keeping pets around children.
The petrology and geochemistry of these volcanic rocks show that they form an essentially bimodal association of basalt and subalkaline rhyolite, with less common intermediate compositions.
Gibcrokes and recons were local and less frequent names, and the folks who in their dialect called the lug-pole a gallows-balke called the pothooks gallows-crooks. Home Life in Colonial Days
There had always been a strongly domestic, philoprogenitive side to Soames; baulked and frustrated, it had hidden itself away, but now had crept out again in this his ‘prime of life.’ In Chancery
Kosher is not the main issue: no meat-eating gentile ever balked at salt beef. Times, Sunday Times
Depending on the model, the complaints range from faulty key fobs and leaky sunroofs to balky electronics that leave drivers and their passengers stranded.
Or, if the price makes you balk, at least have afternoon tea to drink in the atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
The price reduction comes after investors balked at the higher valuation. Times, Sunday Times
Harris Tweed is protected by a raft of laws, stamps, and authentications that would make any copyright pirate balk.
Hopefully, things will not go quite as easily for Balkenende as they appear to be going for Brown; leading opposition party SP are determined not to be "hassled" into agreement and are insisting that the text should be throughly reviewed and evaluated. A Letter from Limburg
Its stout ribs, curving outwards and downwards from this magnificent balk, supported the carvel-built roof, so that the upper half of the building appeared -- and indeed was -- a large inverted hull, decorated with dormer windows, brick chimneys, and a round pigeon-house surmounted by a gilded vane. Wandering Heath
It’s just the idea of parsnip in a mulligatawny which I rather balk at. Chris Neill's Dirty Kitchen
This ballet mixes elements of folk dance from the Balkans with eurhythmics in order to tell the story of the beautiful Yana, her fiancé Momchil and the Dragon.
Heavy snow and ice blanketed the Balkans on Christmas Day, blocking roads and closing airports as temperatures plunged to near minus 20 degrees centigrade.
Beckett got upset with West in the fifth inning after he called a balk on an attempted pickoff toss to first base. Undefined
Indeed, despite the decline in terrorist incidents in Chechnya, the total for the four republics of Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, and Kabardino-Balkaria rose from 230 in 2005 to 398 in 2008. The Return
In the ninth century, Orthodox missions from Constantinople converted the Bulgars, Serbs and Slavs, tribes who had invaded and settled the Balkan provinces some 200 years before.
Not that I thought comment was worthy of a threepeat; computer is balky. McCain Cancels CNN Interview As Punishment For Criticizing Palin
The proxy forces that they have created to "Balkanize" Pakistan just as they have done in Iraq must be stopped. Information Liberation
But I know that moving in a universe operating on Balkan time, no question should be answered too hastily, and without deep contemplation.
International diplomacy - and its failings - played just as big a part in the Balkan conflict.
Down many deep steps beneath the stage is a winding passage leading past the unornamental bases of what appear to be huge balks of timber, rising up into space. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
Many people would balk at setting up a new business during a recession.
The only real cryptobiont of the Balkans, the olm, has not yet been recorded by specialists in the western parts of Montenegro despite considerable anecdotal evidence of its presence.
As the EU enlarges into the Balkans, the ratio of sprats to sharks will increase.
To say it was depressing is an understatement: even the most liberal-minded of viewers would have balked at the moral desolation of the scene. Times, Sunday Times
Clients balk at the price, but usually come back after shopping around, he says. Times, Sunday Times
Every one now had tasted the wassail-cup except Paulina, whose pas de fée, ou de fantaisie, nobody thought of interrupting to offer so profanatory a draught; but she was not to be overlooked, nor baulked of her mortal privileges. Villette
Sure, you could say the umps had something to do with the outcome today, but even with the 'balky' call and missed call at first, the game could have easily been won. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
Seeking to arrest or reverse the pound's fall would only have been feasible had we baulked at cutting bank rate to 0.5% in early 2009 as part of the co-ordinated global action to avoid a second Great Depression. King to Osborne: be patient, trust us, and keep fingers crossed
At the start, Amis announces certain 'general principles' to be followed in creating drinks, all of which can be derived, by natural drinkers 'logic, from the first of them, which holds that' up to a point [i.e. short of offering your guests one of those Balkan plonks marketed as wine, Cyprus sherry, poteen and the like], go for quantity rather than quality '. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
He shares a cell meant for four people with 30 others at the prison in Balkh province where he has been held for more than three months. Rice will 'talk to President Karzai' about journalist sentenced to death
Fresh research suggests that, while people will happily put up with voluntary restrictions on movement, they balk at the idea of compulsory quarantine. Times, Sunday Times
It can be by virtue of a hit, a putout, an error, a forceout, a fielder's choice, a passed ball, a wild pitch, a balk, or a stolen base.
Which, while they're still fast friends, was the last word ever passed between them on the subject of the funker and the balker. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier
Other countries such as China and Iran are also "balking" on the idea, using the excuses of U.S. Global Issues News Headlines
_Bactria_ is the ancient name of that district now called Balkh, in Afghanistan. De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars
Some may balk at the frivolous approach to taking drugs, but few series are as vocal in their celebration of youthful individuality. Times, Sunday Times
The proxy forces that they have created to "Balkanize" Pakistan just as they have done in Iraq must by stopped. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
Gaza was populated mainly by Egyptian peasants who evaded the Turkish prohibition on entry, Roumanian gypsy slaves of Maronite priests in Sinai, and latterly Turkish=Muslim peasants transferred from the Balkans after the Treaty of Berlin handed Ottoman holdings in what came to be known as Croatia to the Habsburgs in 1878. The Volokh Conspiracy » Palestinians of African Descent:
In several passages, he exalts the American weaponry used in the Balkans, particularly the latest Air Force technology.
Even Britain, which of all the major powers has most closely aligned itself with them, is balking at giving its support to the abandonment of the treaty.
I don't think it's completely unreasonable to balk at the cost of college, as your co-blogger has, but I doubt the right way to economize is to sneak into the lectures. Get the Best Education in the World, Absolutely Free!, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
These shoppers have either remained undecided or simply balked at the price. Times, Sunday Times
After some furious backpedalling from the Germans in recent days, bond and markets higher Wednesday and the euro clambered back above $1.40 (R10. 40) after the European Union gave its backing to the Greek Balkans, there beckons a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to WN.com - Articles related to Euro Area Headed for Break-Up, SocGen's Edwards Says
He may be hardening to win over militants who have balked at formalising a de facto truce.
Of course, some might balk at the morality of keeping tabs on anyone 24 / 7, but this tricky question would at least leave one job for the ethics commissioner to handle.
She had won three national championships and a bronze medal in the Balkan Championships.
MPs may balk at an eviction notice. Times, Sunday Times
Another Balkanski group act involves trampolining and stilts.
Guerciotti's cyclo-cross models were especially sought after, thoroughbreds in a field of balky, unwieldy CX beasts.
After spending a holiday in Romania, it takes a tourist only one hour by plane to reach the capitals of the former Hapsburg Empire (Prague, Vienna, Budapest), the bimillenary metropolises of the Balkan region (Athens, Istanbul) or of the Slav one (Kiev, Cracow, Zagreb).
(S) Abdullah complained that the Ministry of Interior was circulating a letter accusing him and his supporters, such as Balkh Governor Atta, of distributing weapons (reftel). The Guardian World News
Iron-hard baulks of it, along with a few copper rivets, washers and sheathing, is all that remains of the ship.
A fellow driver chose to have words with him and criticised him for weaving about on the track in order to balk those who try to overtake.
The new hall is concrete and stone and huge baulks of timber, throwing itself out to the world's best view through great sliding glass doors.
In provinces such as Balkh, such a move would further entrench the warlords and rekindle ethnic tensions, but some analysts say the trade-off would be worth it. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
He told me about the NATO manoeuvres he'd been on, the Balkan skirmishes --- `Fabulous stuff! RESCUING ROSE
He pledged to perpetuate the criminal bantustan system, further to balkanise our country and to continue the land dispossession of the African majority, which is confined to a little more than ten percent of ANC Today
Nobody with more brains than God gave a dead armadillo is surprised by the balky nature of the Democratic “majority”. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Things Will Burn
Fresh research suggests that, while people will happily put up with voluntary restrictions on movement, they balk at the idea of compulsory quarantine. Times, Sunday Times
Casimir left Dublin for the Balkans as a war correspondent and enlistment.
Given his reputation as a carefree character, it is no surprise that he balked at living under the constant scrutiny of Sir Clive's microscope.
Unless these conditions were complied with, gravity served no better than a balky horse - it would not work at all…
Some may balk at the frivolous approach to taking drugs, but few series are as vocal in their celebration of youthful individuality. Times, Sunday Times
With a background in the region's history -- so marinated in discord it gives us the word "balkanization" -- you begin to understand how hard it must have been to heal after the war.
A family of Tamil shipwrights were adzing baulks of timber into banana-shaped fishing rafts.
With all these caveats, Tel Aviv Stories would make even the sturdiest publisher balk and many did. Ashley Rindsberg: Tel Aviv Stories
Thanks to balky local governments, the full length was not finally surfaced with concrete or macadam until 1937.
a balky customer
I had to set aside that obsolescent hippie balkiness and adopt a pragmatic attitude for the task ahead. Archive 2007-03-01
When the participant baulked at giving the electrical shocks, the experimenter - an authority figure dressed in a white lab coat - ordered them to continue.
If the administration had any doubts about China's resentment and balkiness, it lost them when Chinese President Jiang Zemin was finally heard from on Tuesday night. A Crash In The Clouds
The Six are six (and frequently five) down-on-their-luck folk who range from "antihero" to "supervillian, but not right at the moment" who go around committing crimes for pay (and often, balking at the last minute from particular crimes, and thus not getting paid). Adult Fic, I Read That Too
Balkanization has different facts: she was a pedicurist and killed the one with a “pedicure knife.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Chinese woman resists rape, is criminally convicted, then released:
He balked the invitation and clambered in with me.
Even the dean hollered ‘Rana’ when his machine was balky.
A method of setting out archaeological excavation trenches in a pattern of regular square or rectangular boxes with baulks between, pioneered by Sir Mortimer Wheeler at sites in India and southern Britain.
Though there was a lot of criticism from various quarters at that time, today the present coaches are adopting the method, which was introduced by Balkishen Singh.
Rival claims to Macedonian territory caused conflict in the Balkans.
A liner note by the executive producer untangles some of this all-too-typical Balkan tale, but this recording is more a testament to resilience and joy than anger and resentment.
Other than a balky elevator, the only real link between the two films is choreographer Hermes Pan, who was Fred's right-hand man throughout the Ginger years.
Needing the colours to take the frame he was about to take a tough shot on green near the baulk cushion when two spectators left the arena.
Not being accustomed to balking at obtaining a solution despite significant difficulties offered, I put my massive encephalon to this task.
When the city balked, de Witt promised to make his retirees into students. 'R' Is For Retirement
One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can balkanize Wikipedia's uppity, insipid lynch mob into an etiolated and sapless agglomeration. Historical Christian Hairstyles
In fact, web users in the United States already pay far more for Internet access, and have far balkier web access, Âthan patrons overseas. John Dougherty: The Clock Is Running Out on Net Neutrality
Airlines have already begun to balk at paying commissions of 7% to 10% of the ticket price to travel agents.
The Ottomans were certainly in conflict with Europeans for centuries--they entered the Balkans in the 14th century and they besieged Vienna as recently as 1683; but they certainly did not "jostle" the Crusaders for centuries. Daimnation!: NY Times blames Crusaders--wrongly
However, the production company has baulked at a 15,000 fee for the use of an abandoned crofthouse.
I balked at the prospect of spending four hours on a train with him.
Have you ever worked with a therapist, or would you balk at that?
Aviation sources said the airlines had balked at high warzone insurance premiums. Times, Sunday Times
Medecin sans Frontieres (MSF a. k.a Doctors Without Borders) was born in 1971 when it broke from the International Committee of the Red Cross because the ICRC had balked at aid that might benefit the rebels. Peter Christian Hall: 'The Crisis Caravan': Charity's Road to Hell?
The British forces in the Balkans are popularly referred to in terms of ‘our boys’, in the spirit of the second world war.
Do not balk the opportunity to see the church on the Green Hill.
A student assistant with computing skills can help with restarting a balky workstation or writing a Web page.
Indeed they are struggling to get into the team, baulked by players who last season didn't get games when Veron and Beckham were fit.
On one side, where it threatened to fall over into the garden, it was shored up with baulks of timber, driftwood picked up on the strand.
Kamakim, the arch-thief, who lieth chained in jail and on his bilboes is written, ‘Appointed to remain till death’; so do thou don thy richest clothes and trick thee out with thy finest jewels and present thyself to thy husband with an open face and smiling mien; and when he seeketh of thee what men seek of women, put him off and baulk him of his will and say, ‘By The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The perfection of the troops' training was revealed when a display of parade-ground drill helped to extricate the army from a trap in the Balkan mountains.
The fest kicks off with a visit from Vancouver's Zeellia, a sextet whose home base is Ukrainian traditional music, from which point they venture out to sounds from the Balkans, the Baltic region and the Canadian prairies.
N. war crimes prosecutor said on Sunday it was possible Slobodan Milosevic had committed suicide and his death made it all the more urgent to catch others blamed for the horrors of the Balkan wars.
The Ottoman Empire, until then, had kept a lid on all the problems of what was then called the Near East -- including the Balkans and Iraq. Progress Put On Hold
They sought to renegotiate the terms of the funding being promised by the bank, which balked at the radical changes proposed and exited from the deal.
They were the members of Europe's first great dualist church, which flourished in Bulgaria and the Balkans from the 10th to the 15th century.
Hope-Taylor himself describes this on p31 of his report, aiming for ‘total initial exposure of large areas with as few dividing balks [sic] of ploughsoil as possible’.
aber schön? subjektiv.der mann muss sich jetzt von polen erholen und ist auf dem weg nach dänemark. das mittlerweile fiebernde kind und ich halten stellung in berlin, nicht unbedingt leiser hier,aber vertrauter.auf dem balkon die freundinnensonnenblume,im zimmer ein herzenszettel,auf dem bett die eigenen kissen.heimat. Polen 2
To emancipate all mankind, we will balk at no sacrifice . even that of our lives.
But Young Ox was not to be balked of his prey.
RW: But the irony is that books like yours and [Richard Dawkins's] God Delusion balkanise the world a good deal more, because they polarise views.
While the term Chetnik, which originally referred to royalist fighters during the Second World War but came to apply to Serb paramilitaries during the Balkan wars of the Nineties, Berikoff said he heard it being used to describe all Serbs. Institute for War & Peace Reporting:
Put more concretely, a voucher system would make the educationally well-off better off, would make the poorly-off worse off, would Balkanize society, and would create an educational under-class. Teacher Pay, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
How inane is it that marketers at Microsoft balk at entering the podcasting market because they think the name helps Apple. Scripting News for 6/7/2006 « Scripting News Annex
Slavic peoples migrated into the Balkans and along the Dalmatian coast in the sixth century.
Conversation is essentially reciprocal, and when a good converser flings out his ball of thought he knows just how the ball should come back to him, and feels balked and defrauded if his partner is not even watching to catch it, much less showing any intention of tossing it back on precisely the right curve. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it
And I, bein 'a Hammond, with some of the Hammond balkiness in me, I set my foot down as hard as his. Keziah Coffin
It has been claimed that Spurs "baulked" at Coventry City's asking fee but the Sky Blues chairman insists he didn't quote any figures during the late bid to sign the 25-year-old Irish international after Harry Redknapp's attempts to get Portsmouth's Asmir Begovic fell flat. IcCoventry
Today, I received email with these subject lines: your penis your life balky cocoon aggressor --- Yeah, what the hell IS that? countrify blatz lump deathbed rust --- this was an ad for breast enlargement! Purplecigar Diary Entry
Not only that, Paris has balked at US demands that it and other countries fork over tens of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of troops, no questions asked, to bolster a US-run exercise in neocolonialism.
When there's a runner on first base and the pitcher makes a motion to throw to that base from the rubber, he's charged with a balk if he does not complete his throw.
This year has been all about teachers fishing hearts out of buckets and the processes of excretion on the blackboard and my son has baulked at it all somewhat. On Kindness « Tales from the Reading Room
The army took the traditional overland route down the Danube River and across the Balkans to Constantinople.
According to Russian Federal Security Bureau Investigation Bureau speculated, is suspected of planning terrorist attacks 22-year-old Kabardino - Balkar Republic Islamic Hamm Jef residents.
Except for the center rectangle, each rectangle formed by the balklines is a ‘balk area.’
Your husband may balk at the idea of counselling because it is not something men of his generation generally value. Times, Sunday Times
When the participant baulked at giving the electrical shocks, the experimenter - an authority figure dressed in a white lab coat - ordered them to continue.
It included most of the territory of the former Terek Oblast and Dagestan Oblast of the Russian Empire, which now form the republics of Chechnya, Ingushetia, North Ossetia-Alania, Kabardino-Balkaria, Dagestan and part of Stavropol Krai of the Russian Federation. The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus « Skid Roche
Lesser actors might have baulked at playing an IRA terrorist or an incomprehensible Irish boxer or, as with Benjamin Button, a kind of half-Gump, half-Kermit dimwit. But not Pitt.
It had been left intact as a backup to the balky original warp field.
A dedication ceremony was held in late July in Balkh province for the hand over of 100 km of recently constructed farm-to-market roads.
Cottons are used such as Turkey red and Balkan blue and Mandarin yellow, with a good deal of burned orange and black.
Clients balk at the price, but usually come back after shopping around, he says. Times, Sunday Times
Ed was one of the balkiest boys I ever had in my school. Reveries of a Schoolmaster
I had to set aside that obsolescent hippie balkiness... Archive 2007-02-01
They practically balked at the idea that I might have some abnormal obstruction to recognition. Times, Sunday Times
Lumping the two together makes no more sense than lumping together balks and wild pitches.… The same holds for outfielders.
A faint garlic smell reached him exactly then, an inbreaking of Balkan blood on the air of his north, as he turned back to her to ask if she really was Katje, the lovely little Queen of Transylvania. Gravity's Rainbow
But some councillors privately have baulked at the new boards, which they see as a ‘hoop-jumping exercise’ designed to get the Government off the council's back.
The case represented a first, hesitant step towards the harmonisation of two cardinally important rights, even though the Court balked the opportunity to give lengthy analysis to the extent of the two rights compatibility with one another.
For the next seven weeks, Gobalkrishnan was held in solitary confinement and denied access to a lawyer or his family.
I was seated at my typewriter and the book was balkier than usual, and I wished that the clumper at the door would go away. Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed
The strudels of thin pastry enriched with fat are sweet in Central Europe, and sweet or savoury by the time they reach the Balkans.
In it Raynsford effectively admits that regions are an attempt to balkanise England. An English Parliament - It's Part of the Solution, Not the Problem
And the same tensions continued after 1975 as southern Communists balked at domination by their northern comrades.
Does it not occur to these office-bound mandarins that many white and middle class people balk at being faced with fells, lakes and dry stone walls?
Balka's art - introspective and executed with a minimalist austerity - continues to attract viewers.
Their capsule will carry up more spare parts for the balky oxygen generator, but have room for little else.
If you ever want to check out the great but bygone tradition of Yugoslav Album Designs, head over to Carniola, where there's an ongoing series featuring the most remarkable sleeves released during the history of that Balkan republic. Yugoslav Album Designs
They were off the Balk -- the reef that at low water ran covered in oar wrack out towards the Cages. THE MAIN CAGES
Your husband may balk at the idea of counselling because it is not something men of his generation generally value. Times, Sunday Times
Alongside this insouciance goes a Balkanised decision-making process, with numerous overlapping authorities responsible for different watersheds, sanitation plants and irrigation.
A mini-boom in the Balkans is helping: a Greek bank opens a new branch in a neighbouring Balkan country almost every week.
Alex Balk, the editor of Radar.com, wrote today that “pulling a prank on April 1 is a lot like getting blottered on St. Patrick’s Day: if you’re not doing it every day, you’re not really Irish.” Souring on April Fool’s Day - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
Mutual contact and friction of the sexual parts seem to be comparatively rare, but it seems to have been common in antiquity, for we owe to it the term "tribadism" which is sometimes used as a synonym of feminine homosexuality, and this method is said to be practised today by the southern Slav women of the Balkans. [ Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
Roy decided that, without knowing how he did it, he had fortunately succeeded in curing its "balkiness. Rival Pitchers of Oakdale
Another man "wouldn't drive old Sall-she was de balkiest mule on de place; you won't get a mile from here 'fore she takes de contraries, and won't budge a step. The Romance of the Civil War
Merchants could well balk at supporting incompatible payment operations.
A Balkan Film Board was established in 1995, and although it is non-functional at the moment, it is a structure that many filmmakers from the region say they would like to see operational.
a balky mule
Because his narrative is unmoored to any conceptual anchor, Halberstam tends to imbue events such as the decade-long Balkans catastrophe with too much significance.
Some investors had balked at the dilutive impact of the issue. Times, Sunday Times
We say I balked at the price, but what results! Times, Sunday Times
This tour is centred around the small village of Apriltsi, in the northern slopes of the Balkan mountains.
It takes place in November and besides the regular panorama of Greek films it offers an annual showcase for recent Balkan productions.
This is the kind of song which just washes over UK viewers but will hoover up the Balkan votes, particularly as it has a boyband with 3 cuties.
Minerals, mushrooms, higher and lower plants, invertebrate and vertebrate animals make up the richest museum collection on the Balkan Peninsula.
Balki fights to destroy Andy Capp but will not hesitate to defeat anyone who stands in his way.
The Berlin settlement of 1878 disappointed Russian hopes in the Balkans.
Williams also recalled a balky computer system that routinely displayed nothing but a blue screen and a system to removed gases from the rig's drilling shack that had been in a bypass mode for five years. Hispanic Business Magazine
Diana swings both ways and is far more adventurous than Jill, who balks at the suggestion of a threesome.
a player with ball in hand must play from the balk
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The price reduction comes after investors balked at the higher valuation. Times, Sunday Times
Just as eight out of ten cats may prefer a particular brand of cat food, you will never know whether your moggy is going to be the one that is going to balk at the sight of it.
A miracle arrived in this muddy Balkan backwater a few months ago.
I wanted to buy the dress, but I balked at the high price.
MPs may balk at an eviction notice. Times, Sunday Times
These shoppers have either remained undecided or simply balked at the price. Times, Sunday Times
Phillips performed some on-the-spot maintenance of a balky treadmill today.
I'm also a fan of the Bosnian-style beef cevapcici at The Balkan Cafe ($6.49, 2321 W. Lawrence Ave., 773-878-7764), where the homemade pitas are crusty on the edges and soft everywhere else. Chicagotribune.com -
Doctor are also baulked of their revenge, just as they are getting over the preliminary pains and vexations; and, while pluming themselves with anticipated honours, are suddenly deplumed into Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England
One woman was hitting a soldier on the head with her handbag, and I saw one of the soldiers, who was not to be baulked of his dance, pulled down onto the floor, as he held the tattooed wrist of the woman he still saw as his partner.
It doesn’t surprise me that a much more diverse group with specialty constituencies to appease is balking here. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Reminder
Even colder, whenever veterans balk at paying the usurious rip-off, company lawyers sue them, usually in courts far away from where the vets live.
They call for our inclusion within the community, but baulk at us having any meaningful role within our own agencies.
Genuine democratic and social renewal within the Balkans can never take place under the political tutelage of the Western powers and their local quislings.
When he balks, she reminds him that ‘No Lover should his Mistriss Pray'rs withstand: / Yet you contemn my absolute Command ’.
But motorists balk at the idea. Times, Sunday Times
I can understand why audiences may balk at the symmetry of the plot and the serendipity of the cast. Times, Sunday Times
During the Balkan wars and World War I the women operated workshops in the schools that produced sheets and bandages for hospitals in the large cities of Edirne and Istanbul and ran a fundraising and assistance network within the Jewish and local communities. Turkey: Ottoman and Post Ottoman.
A balky putter is what kept Dunlap picking his spots these last few years, still circling the globe like some Ulysses in cleats. One guy who refused to wilt
These shoppers have either remained undecided or simply balked at the price. Times, Sunday Times
For a long time, even in the Balkans, they didn't have anyone reporting there and were depending on BBC stringers.
Your husband may balk at the idea of counselling because it is not something men of his generation generally value. Times, Sunday Times
The biggest obstacle that could keep Hernandez from finishing strong is a balky knee.
According to Russian Federal Security Bureau Investigation Bureau speculated, is suspected of planning terrorist attacks 22-year-old Kabardino - Balkar Republic Islamic Hamm Jef residents.
The bandolero caught up the packhorse's leadrope but the packhorse balked and squatted on its haunches.
Etymology: Middle French debaucher, from Old French desbauchier to scatter, disperse, from des – de – + bauch beam, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German balko beam — more at BALK The Volokh Conspiracy » Recent Michigan Prosecutions for “Seducing an Unmarried Woman”
The president of Bilan's native republic of Kabardino - Balkaria awarded him the title of People's Artist.
Jamie, fifteen, a ninth-grader, heads for a different sort of after-school activity—one that involves hanging around outside a restaurant on Seventeenth Street in Chelsea, waiting with a dozen other paparazzi to see if Gabrielle Bloom, the star of the HBO series Tugboat Annie, will emerge with her new boyfriend, investment banker David Balkan. Famous
Just as he had been promised the post of minister to Jerome in Westphalia, the Empire fell to pieces; and balked of his ambassade de famille as he called it, he went off in despair to Egypt with General de Two Poets
His novels are a rich synthesis of Balkan history and mythology.
In the grainy surveillance camera footage, the dumpy, mustachioed fellow looks like just one more office peon saddled with a balky computer - until he takes his revenge.
On the other hand, if your windows have other problems - balky hardware, flimsy construction, or whatever - window replacement may be the right move.
A society that values freedom, sexuality, and human happiness can hardly balk at this inspiring fulfillment of its ideal.
And the question we're asking is, was the United States right to balk at immediate cease-fire in the Middle East, the U.S. being one of the few countries to stand against the idea of ceasing hostilities? CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2006
For some odd reason, people who work in a field where the word crash brings to mind human injury rather than balky software tend to work slowly and methodically. TIME.com: Top Stories
The label "Balkanization" was probably coined by bismark and accepeted as a valid label ... Dissident Voice
The Third Man" watches from the wings while a "cowed" Mr. Blair considers moving Mr. Brown from the Treasury but balks at the dangers. The Heart of Darkness
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
Because of balky knees, Palmeiro, 36, no longer moves as quickly around the bag.
Only the united Balkan peoples can give a real rebuff to the shameless pretensions of tsarism and European imperialism.
A reverberant melodica opens to a stable kick drum, the Balkan effect softer, more Black Ark-ish. Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Thievery's Rastas and Austin's Latin Soul
Theirs can be described as involuntary migration; they ended up in various places where they continue working on films that contribute to the big project of diasporic Balkan cinema.
ROBERTS: Just as is -- a point of reference, a slivovitz is a very powerful alcoholic drink that's popular in the Balkans. CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2007
From Somalia and the Balkans to Iraq, the U.S. military has been embroiled in conflicts that reflect an age-old debate: Can individual agency triumph over deep-seated historical, cultural, ethnic, and economic forces? Man Versus Afghanistan
Overall, however, the sound is distinctive thanks to a bold, and highly successful, effort to include traditional Balkan folk instruments, such as the tupan or the tamboura.
A family of Tamil shipwrights were adzing baulks of timber into banana-shaped fishing rafts.
Roast kid is a festive dish in Mediterranean countries, spit-roast kid being found throughout the Balkans and the Middle East.
His parents balked at the cost of the guitar he wanted.
The burro balked at climbing the path.
Fastest junior was Smith of Cleveleys RC who clocked 1-12-10, despite being baulked by a tractor over the fast finish.
If the union balks again, Stern said, the league will revert to its prior offer, which he referred to as the reset: a 47 percent share for players, a hard salary cap and a major rollback of current salaries. NYT > Home Page
Wireless worked well, although it was initially balkier than the machine had been while connecting to the same wireless router under Windows Raiden's Realm
Recent headlines and letters have unfairly accused Assemblywoman Lupardo of "balking" at a reduction in pay. Undefined
These shoppers have either remained undecided or simply balked at the price. Times, Sunday Times
World War I followed on the heels of the Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913, which prefigured not only the subsequent atrocities of the twentieth century but its fraternal violence. Bloodlust
Master of the Blog Balkin has encouraged me to post some comments I prepared for the "schmooze" on Sandy Levinson's book. Balkinization
It underlines the ruthless intent of hardliners in the administration to implement the reckless plans to balkanise the country into ethnic impoverished homelands," said the DP's ANC Daily News Briefing
Some may balk at the frivolous approach to taking drugs, but few series are as vocal in their celebration of youthful individuality. Times, Sunday Times
The administration has made no secret of its desire to disengage from the Balkans, although it has promised not to make any dramatic troop reductions without consulting with its allies.
- The people of FYROM are justified in wanting to have some rights to the name Macedonian: they inhabit parts of Macedonia, they speak a Macedonian dialect of the Slavic group, and they have come to think of themselves as a separate nation from other Balkan Slavs. Macedonia: Name Change to Enter NATO, EU?
On his right was Miroslav Lajcak, the European Union's senior point man on the Balkans, and to his right was Stefan Fule, the EU's enlargement commissioner.
Key then (and now) was to balkanize the Middle East along tribal and religious lines - a simple divide and conquer strategy that worked in the 1990s Balkan wars. F. William Engdahl's "A Century of War" - Part II
They practically balked at the idea that I might have some abnormal obstruction to recognition. Times, Sunday Times
This may have resulted in extinction of some species and refuge for others, often in multiple glacial refugia on the Iberian, Italian, and Balkan peninsulas.
Air Force Honcho enjoyed plenty of luck in running last week after being baulked early on and may not enjoy a trouble free passage either this time.
More difficult are cushion caroms and balkline, in which restrictions are imposed by lines drawn on the table.
the Balkans are the tinderbox of Europe
We say I balked at the price, but what results! Times, Sunday Times
Because of the balk, both runners advanced one base, giving the Twins a 5-4 victory.
This may explain why during the 20th century relatively homogeneous Scandanavia was able to build a welfare state, where melting pot America baulked.
Medieval Turnovo's antique houses and narrow cobbled streets are perched on a large rockface that places it among one of the most beautiful cities not only in the Balkans but in all of Europe.
The original cheesemakers from the area employed techniques which would make today's health inspectors baulk. Times, Sunday Times
A number of factors led to her gravitation towards the Balkan region.
Sandy, in one of the discussions you have in hospital, had told us just how the Germans munitioned their Balkan campaign. Greenmantle
When she started Janam (meaning "dear one" or "sweetheart" in Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Turkish), Graffagna pulled together some of the Bay Area's best Balkan musicians, including Peter Jaques, founder of Brass Menazeri, and Tom Farris of the Helladelics and Izvorno IcePick. East Bay Express
The president-elect of the Christian Coalition announced Tuesday that he was stepping down, saying that the religious group appeared to balk at his proposals to focus on environmental and anti-poverty issues rather than on purely "moralistic" issues such as abortion. Evangelical Church Defends Obama Invitation
When Kiev balked at a price hike for 2009, Gazprom cut Ukraine's share from the pipeline.
He'll ask his students to come up with 40 ideas in an hour and when they balk at this, he tells them that they won't know what they can do until they're put under this kind of pressure.
The label balked at the nastier lyrics on "Ten$ion," and Ninja, Yo-Landi and their producer, a beats master named DJ Hi-Tek, opted to distribute the album on their own. NYT > Home Page
It is only the poor players who might balk at the added workload, and the newly-formed Scottish Professional Players' Association will want to negotiate a maximum number of matches per season for their members as a matter of urgency.
The innate love of country, and the cohesiveness and self-identification as Americans that used to be taught in our schools and churches and homes is largely gone too, and ethnic/national identity, race and class warfare and envy has been promoted to Balkanize us and to weaken us. The Slaughter solution, constitutionality, and precedent
Westerners balk at the prospect of snake on the menu.
On the credit side Russia has been brought back into the fold of the international community and in the Balkans the process of resettlement and regeneration goes on apace.
Because these proposals struck at rights that businessmen considered sacrosanct, many congressmen balked. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
Westerners balk at the prospect of snake on the menu.
This matches the needs from many regional companies who are indeed delivering the bulk of their sales across the Balkan markets.
They may balk at the idea of a top boss getting millions while a company's share price is falling.
After agreements were signed with other Muslim republics such as Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, and Kabardino-Balkaria, the danger of a broader conflagration was much weaker. The Return
The black and amber brigade again faced into the elements on Friday but on this occasion their opponents were not to be balked.
This time Bahirawa was baulked of his victim.
Most celebrities - even the most publicity-seeking ones - would balk at that. Times, Sunday Times
The killings follow a spate of attacks on power stations and police posts in Kabardino-Balkaria, which is close to the Ingushetia region where rights group say Islamist militants and government forces are effectively at war. Jihad Watch
Some practices may balk at this degree of rigour, especially given the relative scarcity of trained counsellors.
I just read an interview where you said that, because the studio balked at Anchorman 2, you've got time to do artier films like Everything Must Go. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Everything Must Go
Only last year teenage star Bizni Slott, who won "Balkan Fame Pimp 2008" by eating her own face, floated out of a skylight after a hard night's partying and was shot down by a Bulgarian MiG-29 fighter, a few miles north of Plovdiv. Helium-sniffing Simeon Troll goes for broke in the mad world of Potya
I can understand why audiences may balk at the symmetry of the plot and the serendipity of the cast. Times, Sunday Times
The Red Army triumphed after 12 days of fighting in one of the pivotal battles in the allied liberation of the Balkans.
I wanted to buy the dress, but I balked at the high price.
They started things like the First World War, where they thought ‘oh, we're just taking care of some minor little problem here in the Balkans ’, and whammo, things have spun violently out of control.
The sides of these trenches had the advantage of preserving the stratigraphy, but the baulks inevitably obscured parts of many of the features.
It is a balk, and the runner advances to second base.
Some may balk at the frivolous approach to taking drugs, but few series are as vocal in their celebration of youthful individuality. Times, Sunday Times
One of the scoundrels finding that he was baulked of his prey, threw a large stone at Patterson as he was sitting on the side of his bed, which he narrowly evaded by stooping down.
Finland will contribute $20 million in 2011, with about 25% going specifically to Balkh province in the north. Jordan Dey: The US Isn't the Only Donor in Afghanistan
From here supplies were airlifted to soldiers deployed in the wars in the Balkans and in Afghanistan.
The big draw for me, though, is the cooler along the south wall, which is jammed with Greek olives, cheese, anchovies, halvah and other specialties, including hummus, tarama and Balkan-style yogurt.
But even soldiers from the rugged Balkans were unprepared for the Hindu Kush, a towering range extending southwest from the Karakorum and Himalayas. Alexander the Great
The stage gathered not only Bulgarian presenters but also members of folk troupes and dance ensembles from the Balkan region.
The balky elevator has delivered the jumpers to a tiny platform contained within the tower.
Many parents may baulk at the idea of paying $100 for a pair of shoes.
As soon as ever real balkiness is noted, it becomes necessary to avoid the least appearance of contradictoriness, since that increases difficulties. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
He actually called him "more courageous" than Arafat, whose balkiness incensed the president. Behind The Breakdown
You may balk at the cost of your highlights, but there are far more preposterously priced haircuts going on. Times, Sunday Times
The Balkan situation became a political and military quagmire.
Some people balked at the amount of money paid out at the time, but £11 million now looks like a snip.
According to a report in BalkanTravellers. com, the discovery was made by archaeologists Aleksadar Michev and Teodor Rokov, who were exploring a stone structure reminiscent of a 'dolmen' - a typical Thracian tomb from the Early Iron Age. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
And they cleared all background checks. But just before the foster parent situation could be finalized, Lutheran Child Family Services balked.
The Balkan peninsula, which had been raised to a high level of security and prosperity during the Roman dominion, gradually relapsed into barbarism as a result of these endless invasions; the walled towns, such as Salonika and Constantinople, were the only safe places, and the country became waste and desolate. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
They baulked at investing 400,000 into an event which attracted some 50 million in revenue to the city.
One scenario could see him attempt to stage a comeback as an untainted saviour when voters balk at the painful reality of economic austerity. Times, Sunday Times
To draw mass appeal to the grand opening of its Five on Fifth (Ave.) location, the label balked at the notion of a one-night celebu-fete. Adrants
Most of the main characters are emotionally balked men who hide from their exasperated, shrewish wives by throwing themselves into their work and who are given to as in one story "building tall towers of self-pity and then watching them sway. Strained Separations
He was the first Cheshire officer to swap his regular beat in the Knutsford area to act as an adviser in the war-torn towns of the Balkans.
We almost baulked at the dodgy exposed climb needed to reach it.
Cheyne, Frewen's boatsteerer, who was a splendidly built, handsome young fellow of twenty-four years of age, received a rather severe injury to his right foot whilst a heavy baulk of timber was being "fleeted" along the deck. John Frewen, South Sea Whaler 1904
She felt certain that amongst his men there were many who had been with him for years, men who showed the kind of loyalty to him that Merlow did: men who would not have baulked at the tasks he had for them when he waltzed into their taverns all those years ago, back when Edgeton was still an innocent idyll. One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber
Superior claims may baulk inferior ones, but the liquidator's duty is to realise the assets of all in accordance with their rights.
Just as fixed-gear, indie rock aficionados usually balk at being categorized as hipsters, people in the outsider art world eschew the label outsider art. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Truly, Hero is so tightly organized that the viewer may balk at its clockwork elegance.
Blacks are expected to exercise their political ambitions in unviable, poverty-stricken, arid, bantustan homelands, ghettoes of misery, inexhaustible reservoirs of cheap black labor, bantustans into which South Africa is being balkanized. Desmond Tutu - Nobel Lecture
Cheeses follow the general pattern of the Balkan region and include a white brine cheese similar to the Greek feta.
And the same tensions continued after 1975 as southern Communists balked at domination by their northern comrades.
Or, if the price makes you balk, at least have afternoon tea to drink in the atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
Also, I've put the red, blue, green and black lines in the approximate location of 14’ balklines.
Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments.
She looked like a lion baulked of its prey.
Considering they fail to exceed the average size of regular apartments, prospective tenants may baulk at the use of the term penthouse.
All of the exercises used a simulated Balkans environment.
What made those holes and rents In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to balk All hope of greenness? The Waste Lands
There was no linear progression from an authoritarian racial state to a non-racial democracy, from a country balkanized on ethnic lines to one with a secure national culture.
Nevertheless, I balked at the suggestion that I should wear my khimar back in Japan.
Milner potted green to level the frame scores but left a sitting brown after attempting an ambitious pot along the baulk cushion.
It wanted to expand into Asia and the Balkans and so had conflict with Austria - Hungary.
With the Lebanese government balking at an international investigation into the murder, tensions are rising and positions hardening.
After the Civil War, small-arms technology evolved rapidly, but a penurious Congress and an intractable ordnance board balked at rearming an entire army.
The Pentagon is making a serious push to pull US forces out of Balkans altogether.
Then, not long ago, Elektra balked at advancing money for Ween to record a new album.
Even the most hawkish leaders baulked at countenancing a right of pre-emptive action when the world's principal disputants both had nuclear missile submarines designed to evade a surprise attack.
The ECB resists, and all who balk will be chastised by the monied powers and their demimonde, the ratings agencies and global banks. Matthew Yglesias » The ECB’s Complacency
Or again has it been rushed in its development and is baulked up with poor coding?
All those stately equipages were good, and the one that fell to us mounted the hill to our hotel by a grade so insinuating that the balkiest horse in Roman Holidays, and Others
Aviation sources said the airlines had balked at high warzone insurance premiums. Times, Sunday Times
In command of most of the Balkans and northern Greece, John Asen now began to call himself Emperor of the Bulgars and the Greeks.
Balke's careful, walking on eggshells piano etches graceful, poised lines or occasionally, prepared piano abstractions.
The Germans' second group game against the Balkan nation promises to be a fascinating encounter, not least because Friedrich's club-mate Gojko Kacar is likely to start in attack for the Serbians.
Depending on the model, the complaints range from faulty key fobs and leaky sunroofs to balky electronics that leave drivers and their passengers stranded.
Europe has made strenuous efforts to bring the Balkans into its economic and political orbit.
The treasures of Balkan cinema remain unknown even to cineastes.
Zabel was balked, and instead the rider who pushed McEwen all the way to the line, and even bumped his shoulder at 40 mph in the final metres, was his fellow Australian Baden Cooke.
The subalkaline character of the magmatic activity, combined with the prevalence of acidic effusive rocks, is characteristic of an orogenic suite developed on continental crust.
The unnamed first-person narrator of the eight linked stories in Love and Obstacles survives a similar uprooting from the Balkans to the Midwest. 2009 September 18 « One-Minute Book Reviews
Most of these wells are propped up with wooden balks.
Eli took me under his wing and showed me a lot of basic concepts and finer points of making gathers in straight rail and balkline carom billiards.
After agreements were signed with other Muslim republics such as Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, and Kabardino-Balkaria, the danger of a broader conflagration was much weaker. The Return
The third fundamental cause of the War was the desire of the Teutonic powers to control the small nations of the Balkan peninsula.
Most of these embroilments, to the extent they bother anyone, affect not the United States but its allies - and these allies are generally capable of handling the consequences, be it Indonesia and Australia, or the Balkans and Europe.
We can't accept the fragmentation or balkanization of the country.
Historically, I have always baulked at the concept of fancy dress, on the grounds that I have a natural aversion to making myself look ridiculous.
Original consumer models were bulky and balky, user-friendly only if the user was a technogeek.
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But that cautionary experiment and others didn't balk the ascent of cortisone (also known as corticosteroids). NYT > Home Page
"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.
The rise to power of the Balkan League is bound to modify the balance of power.
We _can_ attack here with more men and more munitions than the enemy the very moment we care to accept the principle that, _at this moment_, Constantinople and the heartening up of Russia and ascendency amongst the Balkan States are not only the true positive objectives of our strategy, but are the sole strategical stunts upon the board. Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2
He broke, Burnett left the white pinned awkwardly against the balk cushion - and from there, McCulloch knocked in a long red.
In the past three years, staff turnover has been a dramatic 30% - a level that some commercial companies might balk at - and 60 new professors have been appointed.
Instead, inspired by the stuffed cabbage rolls eaten at Christmas in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, I use blanched savoy cabbage leaves to wrap my parsnippy parcel, adding a touch of festive greenery to the dish. How to cook the perfect nut roast
As the bands play, militant hippies outside, balking at the $14 admission price, chant for free music and clash bloodily with police.
McCain balked at an ad using images of children that suggested that Obama might not protect them from terrorism. Campaign Postmortems « Gerry Canavan
But motorists balk at the idea. Times, Sunday Times
Fresh research suggests that, while people will happily put up with voluntary restrictions on movement, they balk at the idea of compulsory quarantine. Times, Sunday Times
Part of the difficulties seem to stem from the fact that as an army sponsored organization, there are a lot of rules that an FRG needs to adhere to, and frankly, there is no way to hold volunteers accountable, and most will balk at the rediculous restrictions. ok, so I have to fill out how many dozen forms to _volunteer_ my time, including several on a continuing basis every time I do some volunteer work? Military Spouses for Creative Solutions - SpouseBUZZ
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.
The current saga over refugee influxes would pale in comparison to the thousands of Indonesians fleeing a balkanising archipelago.
In its place, we now have a ‘balkanized’ group of subcultures whose members pursue their separate, unshared interests in an unprecedented variety of ways.
Others feared complete disintegration, with the Midwest, the mid-Atlantic states and New England going their separate ways, creating a congeries of competing or even warring states—a North American "Balkans"—that would fall prey to foreign interference. How America's Civil War Changed the World
The subalkaline character of the magmatic activity, combined with the prevalence of acidic effusive rocks, is characteristic of an orogenic suite developed on continental crust.
Clients balk at the price, but usually come back after shopping around, he says. Times, Sunday Times
Balked of Alfred, she would find Harry Washington a more than acceptable alternative.
It appeared, upon further acquaintance, that the man paid a hundred dollars for the horse; his brother had paid a hundred and twenty-five for the balker; but it was the belief of our driver that it would be worth the difference when it had reconciled itself to the rising ground of Frascati; as yet it was truly a stranger there. Roman Holidays, and Others
The horse balked at the high fence.
He then potted blue in the middle pocket but the cue ball rolled back off the baulk cushion into the opposite middle pocket for a five-point foul.
Most officers will assimilate that which is successful in mission accomplishment but balk at appeasing perceived idiosyncrasies of another nation.
Among other particular features of Albanian and other Balkan languages are a postpositive definite article and the absence of a verbal infinitive.
They may feel that they are balked in making their way through life, that authority figures are preventing them from expressing themselves, etc.
In fact, Western intervention in the Balkans exacerbated tensions and sustained hostilities.
You may baulk at forking out your hard-earned cash for these extravagantly self-obsessed, petulant, little scamps.
Or, if the price makes you balk, at least have afternoon tea to drink in the atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
When challenged, Loughlin balked, "you're suggesting I want to supply criminals with guns. Margie Omero: What's at Stake for Women in the Midterms: Part 2 -- Hundreds of GOP Candidates With Women Problems
I got baulked by slower cars a couple of times and Jonny caught me.
Pinder's Balk, which the pinder cultivated for his own profit. The Customs of Old England
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He nudged Cochise towards the sound but the pinto out and out balked and refused to take another step.
Despite a number of tangential references to the shady dealings of American corporations in the Balkans and their connections to organized crime, I have not yet seen a serious and comprehensive analysis of this interesting subject.
It is also important to acknowledge the concerns of volunteer managers who balk at the idea of thousands of students and city professionals beating a path to their door to demand flexitime. It's volunteering, but not as you know it
The reading of the painting is controlled, held back, balked, as the eye scans the gap between traceries, the small negative spaces that become positive for a moment and shift the emphasis.
It was only as he stood in the courtyard, with the Porta della Carta before him and Venice beyond, that he roused himself and balked, obscurely but decisively, at walking through the public entrance like an uncumbered man. Asimov's Science Fiction
Many people would balk at setting up a new business during a recession.
To those who sought to balkanise our country into separate entities as a way of entrenching the ideology and practice of racism, as well as those who thought that this country belongs to one race to the exclusion of others, the Freedom ANC Today
A balky putter is what kept Dunlap picking his spots these last few years, still circling the globe like some Ulysses in cleats. One guy who refused to wilt
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Curt is an authority on the Paleolithic and Mesolithic of the Balkans. Of Crystal Skulls and Pyramids
Presumably the 24/7 focus groups that the Romney people run must have baulked at this, and so the message was rapidly retooled. South Carolina primary – CNN debate fallout
The price reduction comes after investors balked at the higher valuation. Times, Sunday Times
When they approached their angel backers for more money, the investors balked.
You may balk at the cost of your highlights, but there are far more preposterously priced haircuts going on. Times, Sunday Times
It was built in the early 1990´s and consists of various obstacles made of tires filled with concrete, concrete panels and wooden balks.
In addition to the activities in the Balkans the exchange with Austria plays an important role in helping to break down chauvinistic attitudes in the Balkans.
Some people have lost their jobs and others balked at his idea of having only two national centres. Times, Sunday Times
We are a culture that now cherishes our adventurous, aggressive tomboys but balks at boys who cry, nurture, and listen to chick flick soundtracks.
Hopes of a major expansion were raised earlier this year, but were dashed after the Government baulked at handing over the £42 million needed to fund the project.
They practically balked at the idea that I might have some abnormal obstruction to recognition. Times, Sunday Times
The decor was simple Balkan style: classy but rustic, without the element of kitsch.
Then they came to confiscate the film but balked because the soundman looked huge and surly.
To those who sought to balkanise our country into separate entities as a way of entrenching the ideology and practice of racism, as well as those who thought that this country belongs to one race to the exclusion of others, the Freedom Charter's message is clear and simple - South Africa belongs to all who live in it! ANC Today
We tried a low downforce aero package, but I was baulked by traffic and so we were not able to see the difference.
There are also proposals to tighten controls on visitors from the Caribbean and the Balkans.
Musically there's a lot to digest here: African flutes, Spanish guitars and the shimmer of tablas and Balkan violins.
The price reduction comes after investors balked at the higher valuation. Times, Sunday Times
'Yes,' I said, 'an' I've knowed better judges of hosses to sell a nervous hoss for a balker that had been balked onct by a rattle head. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
By the end of March the Balkans had become a hotbed of turmoil. THE HITLER-HESS DECEPTION
All those people who are going to venture out into the beaches in France, into Spain, in the Balearics, in Italy, in the islands here, Sardinia and Corsica looking fine, all the way into the Balkan Peninsula. CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2009
The subalkaline character of the magmatic activity, combined with the prevalence of acidic effusive rocks, is characteristic of an orogenic suite developed on continental crust.
They took a lesson from their dads: If you're from the Balkans, and you're up at 3 a.m., and your belly's full of hooch, chances are a grill is firing up nearby with cevapcici sizzling. Chicagotribune.com -
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.
They practically balked at the idea that I might have some abnormal obstruction to recognition. Times, Sunday Times
The two Balkan neighbors have failed to resolve a name dispute that has blocked the tiny republic's accession to NATO and progress toward becoming a member of the European Union. Giant Alexander Statue Erected In Macedonia, Vexing Greece
Many people would balk at setting up a new business during a recession.
The fact they balked after Obama wanted the debate televised is a perfect example. Think Progress » Obama ‘wins showdown’ with Republicans as the Senate confirms 27 of his high-level nominees.
They braced up the old house with balks of timber.
And when Willie was balked in an "idee" that had "kitched him," and left half-a-dozen strings and wires swinging in mid-air for weeks together, Celestina would patiently duck her head as she passed beneath them and offer no protest more emphatic than to remark: Flood Tide
As he gets older, his defensive range shrinks because of balky knees.
These shoppers have either remained undecided or simply balked at the price. Times, Sunday Times
We say I balked at the price, but what results! Times, Sunday Times
He baulked for a moment. 'I can't afford it,' he finally admitted.
Oh, those fine sleek mules which used to kick up their heels in the pasture across the road, and the handsome carriage horses, her little mare, the girls’ ponies and Gerald’s big stallion racing about and tearing up the turf—Oh, for one of them, even the balkiest mule! Gone with the Wind
Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments.
They were off the Balk -- the reef that at low water ran covered in oar wrack out towards the Cages. THE MAIN CAGES
A certain friend of mine made a big stinkaroo about her Amazon wishlist, and I balked. Archive 2005-03-01
Or, if it cannot find even such sporadic or fruitive fulfillments, "a balked disposition" will leave the individual with an uneasiness and irritation that may range from mere pique to serious forms of morbidity and hysteria. Human Traits and their Social Significance
Enjoying the short ride to Grasshopper Level, Leah was mindful of how this horse had been a balker back when Dat first bought him from Uncle Noah Brenneman. Covenant
Keeping the faith with the Balkan brass-band traditions, he leads his boys through romps of full-bodied funkiness, cemented by blasts on the tuba-like helicon.
The Balkan peninsula lies east of Italy and west of Turkey and the Black Sea.
She never wavered in this view and never baulked at the fact that to claim this prize she would have to rid herself of her cousin Elizabeth.
It could still have gone either way on the colours, but Doherty had his nose in front when the pink bounced off three cushions and rolled into a baulk pocket.
But, he smiled as he studied his vocabulary lists, if his plan was to emigrate out of the Balkans, learning Romance languages would be the way to go.
Paedomorphosis characterises the only European real cryptobiont, while the existence of alternative life-history pathways among individuals of the same population is extremely high in Balkan newts, especially along the Dinaric Alps.
The price reduction comes after investors balked at the higher valuation. Times, Sunday Times
MPs may balk at an eviction notice. Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly the weather felt chilled and again the horses balked.
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
These shoppers have either remained undecided or simply balked at the price. Times, Sunday Times
What made those holes and rents In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to baulk All hope of greenness? The Dark Tower
The already skittish horse balked at the sudden change in direction, but Katherine fought with it impatiently.
Known for locating rare books for wealthy collectors, Corso is hired by eminent book-lover and scholar of demonology , Boris Balkan.
German banks are balking at writing off Greek debt.
Massa was infuriated after Panis had driven so tardily on his slowing-down lap that he baulked the Brazilian, costing him a likely ninth place on the grid.
But the Balkan Warrior story is now damaging relations between Serbia and Montenegro, which became independent only in 2006.
Few would have backed him to get a win over Liverpool, and many would have baulked at a belief they could hold high-flying Everton.
When the city balked, de Witt promised to make his retirees into students. 'R' Is For Retirement
The Berlin settlement of 1878 disappointed Russian hopes in the Balkans.
The wheel of fashion turned full circle during London Fashion Week, with the best designers convincing audiences to swoon over collections they would have balked at this time last year.
Another ‘100 years’ vole is the highly distinctive Balkan snow vole or Martino’s snow vole Dinaromys bogdanovi (Martino, 1922), originally named as a species of Microtus but awarded its own genus in 1955. Archive 2006-10-01
Without balklines they cunningly collect the three balls near a cushion and ‘nurse’ them endlessly… click click… click click… scoring indefinitely.
However she baulks at the suggestion that the picture will be a comic drama.
You may balk at the cost of your highlights, but there are far more preposterously priced haircuts going on. Times, Sunday Times
The man renowned as the “Butcher of the Balkans”—engineer of bloody ethnic wars across the former Yugoslavia, from Bosnia and Croatia to Kosovo, and whose actions created the term ethnic cleansing—hung on through debilitating sanctions and even a seventy-eight-day NATO bombing blitz in 1999 to force Serbian units out of Kosovo. Let the Swords Encircle Me
But motorists balk at the idea. Times, Sunday Times

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