“balk at”造句，怎麼用balk at造句

people who think nothing of entering passwords balk at the idea of having their eyeballs scanned.

Having grown up at a time when attitudes towards children were stricter, I sometimes balk at today's indulgence.

It is usually patients not doctors who balk at the sight of a medical instrument being unwrapped.

Christopher McKenna, a historian of consulting at Oxford University, says clients may balk at paying handsomely for a “young punk” of a consultant.

In this case, although finance directors (and many voters) might balk at buying the homeless caravans, the savings should outweigh the costs.

And if government-run banks balk at providing additional loans to developers, underground, gray-market lenders are only too happy to step in.

Not unexpectedly, some managers think women with family responsibilities would balk at such demands, and it is hardly to the discredit of thousands of Wal-Mart women that they may be right.

Mrs Clinton might stumble and fall. The American electorate might balk at the idea of handing both the White House and Capitol Hill to a single party and go for a Republican president.

Both sides still balk at his draft document's latest wording.

Failure is a pain, and some people balk at it and dare not move on.

We can give it a momentary thought, but we balk at filling in much detail on so whimsical a fantasy.

Professor Xu Benli, of the Shanghai University of Sport, says successful sportspeople should not balk at turning over half of their earnings.

A teenage child might balk at washing dishes at home to qualify for pocket money-but would willingly do the same thing in the cafe down the road, where a job and a wage signalled independence.

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Many of you might balk at the Home Depot idea, but hear me out.

Surveys show that most Germans balk at the idea of their country paying for the profligacy of another country, albeit a fellow EU member state.

So, how can you show you won't balk at spreadsheets and graphs?

If demand rises as forecast, the expansion can be delivered to budget, and if shippers do not balk at higher tolls, the canal will be even better business for the government.

Jurors increasingly balk at imposing the death penalty, even when they are convinced of a defendant's guilt.