Would you balk at funding a program that spends 23% of its budget to raise money?
They may not balk at the assignment itself but instead may challenge the methodology.
But many Turks still balk at the prospect of surgery to thicken one's whiskers.
He speculates that patients and their insurers will balk at paying the bill for any quarantines.
Indeed, many dealers agree and have begun to balk at making these massive investments automakers require.
That is about three times the current number, but millions balk at the cost.
Congress may balk at the number of new employees needed to meet these targets.
It is possible that lawmakers would balk at trying to bankrupt the global financial system.
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Managers in one unit would balk at paying the price another unit charged for supplies.
Would southern Irish voters balk at the prospect of taking on the heavily subsidised north?
It may balk at taking on a popular president for lying about his personal life.
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With Iraq in mind, both China and Russia balk at more forceful action too.
They might balk at picking up the bill for his defeat in court as well.
Travel agencies say consumers have started to balk at sky-high airfares and increasingly opt for cheaper destinations.
Taxpayers might well balk at the costs of trying out four teachers to find one good one.
Instead, Hazelton believes that Europeans will balk at the lack of choices of carriers for iPhone service.
Consumers increasingly balk at the premium prices charged by branded-food makers and opt for cheaper private-label goods.
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Many of the characters seem rather thin and milky, and historians will balk at the political simplifications.
Lawmakers might balk at the cost of a full repeal, especially at a time of deep budget deficits.
On the investors' side, the belief that they might balk at collective-action clauses seems to have been unfounded.
At some point, perhaps when the two-week agreement expires, Democrats will balk at that tiny level of fiscal discipline.
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But they're beginning to suspect their proposals will be so robust that the Chancellor may balk at implementing them.
But distressed-debt buyers may balk at missing out on part of the upside.
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Although banks have enough capital to increase these reserves, doing so would reduce profits, which shareholders would balk at.
Hardliners are calling for the army to reoccupy territory held by the Palestinian Authority, something Labour would balk at.
Yet he did not balk at bashing Republican economic policies backed by Bush.
A. in social sciences (which leads me to balk at and question Mike's true understanding of statistical research and analysis).
Even those Western diplomats who are keenest on early talks with the Taliban balk at giving Pakistan all it wants.
Any dietician would balk at the prospect of using bacon, eggs and sausages to prepare their athletes for peak performance.
Investors, who might otherwise balk at the risks that go with digging up minerals in faraway lands, would come running.
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