| With the Lebanese government balking at an international investigation into the murder, tensions are rising and positions hardening. |
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| Not being accustomed to balking at obtaining a solution despite significant difficulties offered, I put my massive encephalon to this task. |
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| The Taliban leadership also was balking at opening a political process that NATO quite rightly demands must be Afghan led. |
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| The man was wandering about in the crowd during the previous bands' shows, without balking at signing autographs or taking pictures. |
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| 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. |
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| With former Kansas City Mayor Carol Marinovich balking, the Democrats are left searching for a top-flight candidate for the seat. |
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| In at least 20 states, governors or legislatures are balking at setting up insurance cooperatives. |
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| The Democrats want to block those cuts for a year, and the Republicans are balking. |
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| With your loved one away are you balking at making that big Christmas dinner? |
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| However, the majority are balking, as they realise that leaving the central thwart of the vessel generally results in a reduction in the rations received. |
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| Slovakia's government under Iveta Radicová fell in October after balking at funding the bailouts on the grounds that it is poorer than those it was paying and was replaced by the leftist Robert Fico as prime minister. |
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| Prime minister Alexis Tsipras, elected on a promise to end austerity, is balking at Brussels's demands to reform the pension system and labour markets – demands to which his conservative predecessor had agreed. |
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| The president, Uhuru Kenyatta, at first refused to pay but got independent advice, from the IMF among others, that balking on payments would harm Kenya's chances of raising money in the bond market, which it was about to do. |
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| This may explain why Americans are balking at the economic cost. |
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| As well, we are confused as to how balking on pay equity and removing the right of women to challenge pay equity, and making it a bargaining issue instead would somehow stimulate the economy. |
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| Would you like to test a new packaging design, but are balking at the time and costs that would arise from retooling the machines in your operation? |
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| In 1998, friends and family persuaded a balking Garcia to build the Alerce Mountain Lodge, an eco-inn nestled in a pristine grove two hours east of Puerto Varas. |
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| Taber, owner of the Ever So Humble Pie Company, is balking at the Braintree Farmers Market's demand that she accept the cards in payment for her wares. |
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| 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. |
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