Exempel på baulk

• Even libraries are likely to baulk at the price, especially if faced with the prospect of paying for a dozen companion volumes.

• Countries, perhaps, without a 'green lobby' may well baulk at the cost and find 'weather proofing' old reactors a more attractive option.

• 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'.

• So the question is again : what makes the cognitivists baulk at any form of computation, whether logical or grammatical, and revert to the old, inadequate paradigm ?

• Communitarian critics might baulk, saying that the very act of distinguishing different kinds of community in itself does violence to the basic organicist spirit of the communitarian project.

• My experience of this world is that if man's ingenuity is baulked in one avenue it will quickly explore others.

• Most people who wanted planning permission would not baulk at the legality of what was involved and would provide the extra set.

• One's imagination baulks at a situation which is so ridiculous and which envisages that we can tax betting by taxing it on turnover.

• 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.

• This is baulking the very thing we are trying to do.

• I made inquiries only this week-end and was told of a ship with 30- to 40-foot baulks of timber being unloaded.

• He was baulked only by a cold-blooded and unscrupulous perjurer.

• There is no point in trying to baulk it.

• I believe that it will be far better if we face the facts of geography and history now rather than baulk away from them.