Word: balking
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...questions have arisen," says Ana Salado, spokeswoman for Deputy Prime Minister María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, who heads the Commission. "More than anything, the delay is due to the complexity of the issue." But to some, the delays raise suspicions that the Commission may balk at suggestions from the icv that Franco's body be moved to a private plot. If the Commission hasn't announced its recommendations by mid-November, the icv pledges to present a bill on the future of the basilica directly to Congress. "We're going to dampen the festivities...
They began losing games in ways that even the Cubs hadn't invented. Why, they blew one game on a walk-off balk. Now, any kind of balk is as improbable as a lunar eclipse. But to have your newly acquired veteran, Mike Stanton, come on to relief pitch in the bottom of the 10th, a man on first and third, and have him lose the game with some imperceptible twitch of a muscle, spotted only by a man in blue 70 ft. away who then waves home the winning run without the benefit of a single batted ball...
...aides (one presidential adviser had slept two out of 60 hours) found the detail work to be hard going. The U.S. wanted to call for a 50% reduction in "comparable nuclear systems." The Soviets, whose earlier arms offers had counted nuclear weapons quite differently from the U.S., continued to balk. Finally, at 4:45 a.m., nebulous compromise language was reached: a 50% reduction to nuclear arms "appropriately applied...
...change their country from a weak, backward state pushed around by foreign powers to a mighty modern nation. Deng has remained a model Leninist in the sense of countenancing no challenge to the Communist Party's role in leading society, even when portions of the party balk at carrying out his reforms...
...moved to third base on a balk and was driven home by Zak Farkes with an RBI groundout. Vance went 2-for-4, recording his seventh and eighth doubles of the season...