Indeed, many dealers agree and have begun to balk at making these massive investments automakers require.
Travel agencies say consumers have started to balk at sky-high airfares and increasingly opt for cheaper destinations.
A. in social sciences (which leads me to balk at and question Mike's true understanding of statistical research and analysis).
They include several of the senators who had helped to balk the impeachment of Mr Estrada before he was thrown out.
That poor on-screen liquidity causes many investors, even institutions, to balk.
As students, we used to balk at this, because it felt like our hard-earned tuition dollars were being used to fund a massively over-funded army of landscapers.
Many people were starting to balk at sky-high market valuations of companies whose only meaningful asset was a licence to dig holes in some obscure part of the world.
Even the European Union has begun to balk at this absurd exercise, joining the United States and Israel in a recent vote on a resolution on Durban II promoted by the so-called African Group.
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.
People with a romantic attachment to political relations might balk at this because, after all, we're supposed to be working together to accomplish a Noble Purpose.
Mr Walsh is right to be fearful, particularly if unions balk at his plans to cut 3, 500 jobs and opt to launch a summer of strikes.
The Yankees were down to their last out against Rodney in the ninth when Overbay walked, went to second on a balk, and scored on Brennan Boesch's pinch-hit RBI double.
If he used to love going out to breakfast with you and doesn't totally balk at it now, hang on to that special routine.
It is possible that lawmakers would balk at trying to bankrupt the global financial system.
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Yet prevention experts say many therapists lack specialized training in how to deal with survivors and balk at treating them because their above-average rate of eventually killing themselves prompts fear of malpractice suits by their families.
"Skieppetsiis needs to be bought fresh, " Balk resident Alie Sytsma told me as she served a plate of the cheese.
The Bells, having spent hundreds of millions on DSL gear from Alcatel and Cisco, would likely balk at ever switching to an EtherLoop design.
As some states balk at expanding Medicaid to cover many of the poorest uninsured, some are still talking about reducing funding to the already stretched program.
Amid signs that Hizbullah's Christian allies would balk at pushing things to such a crisis point, France, Lebanon's former colonial overlord, has stepped in with yet another offer to mediate.
But when inflation really takes off, restaurant customers balk and Sysco may have to, well, eat the higher food costs in the short term.
But many Turks still balk at the prospect of surgery to thicken one's whiskers.
Self-publishing offers the possibility to explore content that a mainstream publisher would balk at, and also removes the necessity for market-driven console ports.
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Labour council leaders used to running their fiefs without much opposition may balk at proportional representation which is strongly favoured by folk such as Mr Midgley.
What it means for the broader markets is a likely slowdown in buyout activity as the banks pull back from lending with easy terms and as buyout firms balk at paying higher interest rates to fund their purchases.
On the investors' side, the belief that they might balk at collective-action clauses seems to have been unfounded.
No one gives a man carrying the body of a young dead girl through the streets a second glance, but they balk at the idea of women wanting to vote.
Congress may balk at the number of new employees needed to meet these targets.
Employees not only want to keep their personal data safe, but they will balk at the notion of IT taking their device away for half a day or more , says Jow.
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