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  • verb Present participle of baulk.

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Examples

  • The people understand this so they are baulking on this Health bill.

    Kennedy 'expected more of us' on health care, Dodd says 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • On leaving he had said gently, as always not baulking the truth.

    She Closed Her Eyes 2010

  • 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

  • And Iran is baulking at a U.N. resolution condemning its nuclear program.

    CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2009 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • You are baulking at the idea that "the state" should have any say in what you decide your children sahould watch.

    I decide what my child watches 2008

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