But we would expect him to have baulked at the reference to the 'tangle of pathology' and the notion of a 'cycle of poverty and disadvantage'.
My experience of this world is that if man's ingenuity is baulked in one avenue it will quickly explore others.
He was baulked only by a cold-blooded and unscrupulous perjurer.
It has never baulked at providing definitions when that has suited its purpose.
Worries about cost and how one draws a line are not to be baulked.
There was no basis therefore on which he could have baulked the committee's work or warned the petitioners not to embark on their chosen course.
He baulked at the word "abundantly"but not at"properly".
The county council baulked at a bid under the rail passenger partnership fund because the outline capital cost was about £15 million.