TV, maintain larger networks of correspondents inside Iraq and rarely flinch from airing graphic content.

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Rais declared he would never flinch from "tweaking" Wahid's ear, should the Muslim cleric-turned-president be found wanting.

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Assuming that the Saddams of the world would somehow flinch from using such weapons against their imagined enemies strikes us as foolhardy.

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And he said he would not flinch from criticism about his performance.

BBC: Miliband: Criticism 'part of job'

The backdrop is Nottingham's Clifton Estate, once the biggest council housing estate in Europe, and Bugg doesn't flinch from painting a bleak picture of the area.

BBC: Jake Bugg: 'I have to pinch myself'

"It was a bold bet, but Kumar didn't flinch from making it, " says Sumant Sinha, Birla's former finance head, who now chairs Savant Advisors, a Mumbai corporate finance consultancy.

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To do this, co-operation with others may be necessary, and we should not flinch from it - after all, we have spent decades opposing tribal politics and saying that parties should co-operate more.

BBC: Charles Kennedy: A party of government

"No matter how hard the U.S.-led hostile forces may try all sorts of isolation and blockade, the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), a proud nuclear power, will not flinch from them, " KCNA said.

CNN: Defiant North Korea 'to weaponize plutonium'

Ms Stern does not flinch from uncomfortable truths.

ECONOMIST: The craze for imprisonment

Lest it be accused of loan sharking, Sanwa Bank points out that the venture is aimed at untapped middle-income, middle-risk consumers (apparently it is already getting calls from school teachers and tax inspectors) who cannot borrow money at banks but flinch at traditional consumer-finance rates.

ECONOMIST: Japanese consumer finance