Examples of flinch

• His call for "honest" taxes operated on the premise that his opponents would flinch before the prospect of a divisive debate about transparent taxes.

• Visionary though he was, he did not foresee that, in the twentieth century, some armies would not flinch from the prospect of genocidal war.

• And once he got the power he never flinched from using it, making more than 275 elective appointments per year.

• In all those ceremonies, the young men undergoing pain are expected to manifest impassivity - in other words, to endure without flinching.

• A person might cause another to flinch by scaring her.

• In such a case, the manipulator does not believe that flinching is somehow the prudent response to fear or that the person who flinches believes this.

• In his letters to her, he never flinches from this lofty position, constructing and maintaining an emotional moat between the two of them that he thought for the best.

• They flinched not against any dangers; they were courageous even unto death.

• It is a duty from which we do not intend to flinch.

• Yet we know that he would not flinch from that decision if he were pushed too far.

• I do not think that the additional cost of £5 or £10 per house is anything to flinch about at all.

• We were the barometer, and we could not and did not flinch.

• They come from a stock which does not flinch.

• We have not flinched from supporting the negotiating position, the application of economic sanctions, or the use of military force.

• If force has to be used in one operation or another, we should not flinch from it.