Ironically, that is precisely what Barak claimed he was doing when he pulled out in 2000.
He pulled out of that competition as soon as he heard his home town needed a new MP.
At his apartment, he pulled out some watercolors by Alberto Lescay, a Cuba-based painter, that were inspired by his music.
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He pulled out his note cards and scribbled, then moved to another part of the lot and scribbled some more.
Cheers erupted when he pulled out a 5-wood, a risky shot off the pine straw through a 15-foot gap of pines.
He pulled out on the second day of the Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, where he also had an opportunity to dethrone Woods.
When the IPO's size increased, he says, he pulled out entirely, deciding to wait and see how Facebook traded once it went public.
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Michael's Symphonica tour kicked off in August in Prague and had taken in countries including Denmark, Germany and Italy before he pulled out.
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McGuire soon added another try for the home side after the interval when he pulled out of an attempted tackle by Paul Wood.
He had suffered a similar injury in the third round of the Australian Open where he pulled out of his clash against Lukasz Kubot.
But Abdullah Abdullah said that he pulled out in part -- maybe he had personal reasons -- because he expected there to be massive fraud.
In August, he pulled out of a leadership summit in Johannesburg because he refused to share a platform with former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Robert Brown, a former police sergeant, told the Guardian that he pulled out of the recruitment process for the Games after seeing it close at hand.
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But Usain Bolt takes such a dim view of British taxation that two years ago he pulled out of the Aviva London Grand Prix and competed in Paris instead.
He pulled out all the stops starting after Lehman Brothers sent the market into a tizzy to pull this country up by its bootstraps and almost will it not to fail.
He pulled out of the 2002 Cheltenham Festival following the death of one of his brothers in a car crash only a month after he survived a crash of his own.
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"He pulled out 36 hours before the fight and I'd been in training camp for three months, " says Cook, who marked time with an eight-round decision over South African journeyman Harry Ramogoadi.
He pulled out the phone above just as a proof point, and while he didn't say who made it, we have a sneaking suspicion it's that Aava Mobile phone we've heard about.
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Mr Kohlhaussen has a tendency to balk at headline-grabbing deals, even at the last minute: in 1996, he pulled out of a merger with Bayerische Vereinsbank (now HypoVereinsbank) days before it was due to be announced.
The latest chatter about Mr. Christie's heaviness began on the "Late Show With David Letterman, " when he pulled out a pastry and began eating as the comic asked whether his frequent jokes about the overweight Republican were offensive.
He pulled out of the Honda Classic in March with pneumonia, but was ninth at the British Open and then claimed third place in this month's U.S. PGA Championship to move back up to 26th in the rankings.
Reaching back to his breakthrough keynote at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, he pulled out all the rhetorical stops from that speech and deployed them throughout the rest of his 2012 campaign: in the second and third debates, in his many stump speeches, and then again in his rousing victory speech.
Earlier, a source said he had pulled out to protect Ms Patel's career.
Stevens was meeting with Republican colleagues when the indictment was returned, and he was pulled out of the meeting, his colleague said.
President Obama was in Florida overnight, but he has pulled out of Monday's planned event in the state with former President Bill Clinton.
He said he heard fire extinguishers as he pulled Abdulmutallab out of his seat and dragged him to the front of the plane.
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