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- verb Present participle of
baulk .
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Examples
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The people understand this so they are baulking on this Health bill.
Kennedy 'expected more of us' on health care, Dodd says 2009
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One could view him as baulking at the public display, at the loss of his name as a loss of reputation, a shaming in the eyes of others.
Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010
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While not explicitly stated I believe they could be baulking on delivery for one or more of the reasons below.
Silver Certificates and failure to redeem. Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2008
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On leaving he had said gently, as always not baulking the truth.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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While not explicitly stated I believe they could be baulking on delivery for one or more of the reasons below.
Archive 2008-11-30 Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2008
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And Iran is baulking at a U.N. resolution condemning its nuclear program.
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The quickest way back from Glencorse would have been to go straight across the well-worn path to Bonaly, but I was baulking at having to negotiate all the mud on the first half of the route.
1 measly second 2009
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The quickest way back from Glencorse would have been to go straight across the well-worn path to Bonaly, but I was baulking at having to negotiate all the mud on the first half of the route.
Running-free week 2009
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It has an administration so blatantly corrupt that the world is baulking at its arrogance.
Alan Cumming: Why Is America So Content With Mediocrity? 2008
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You are baulking at the idea that "the state" should have any say in what you decide your children sahould watch.
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