The closest Defoe came to his first Premier League goal of the season was a scuffed effort over the bar while Crouch twice got a glimpse of goal but was denied by good defensive challenges, from Ricketts and Paul Robinson, when he hesitated before getting a shot away.

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The visitors raced up the other end and Lewis Stevenson hesitated when he found space inside the box and fired against the outrushing Langfield.

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Saakashvili had hesitated Thursday evening when asked whether he was ready to sign the cease-fire papers Rice was carrying.

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He was the kind of man who never hesitated to say that he knew better than you, even when he didn't.

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Obama never hesitated to give lip service to malpractice reform when he was seeking to broaden support for his bill.

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Yorkshire sent in Rana Naved-ul-Hasan to open, but he was run out without facing a ball when Andrew Gale set off for a suicidal run to cover, hesitated, then went again.

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