Word: flinch
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Harvard didn't flinch...
...revolution led by Mandela to transform a model of racial division and oppression into an open democracy, he demonstrated that he didn't flinch from taking up arms, but his real qualities came to the fore after his time as an activist--during his 27 years in prison and in the eight years since his release, when he had to negotiate the challenge of turning a myth into...
Blair was asked sharply by British journalists at a joint press conference in Washington whether he thought it was wise to embrace Clinton so publicly. He did not flinch. He said he was backing Clinton because he believed in him and it was the right thing to do. He had found Clinton "someone I could trust, someone I could rely upon, someone I am proud to call not just a colleague but a friend...
...none anyway. He then proposed a five-year ban on cloning. This is not enough. Congress should ban human cloning now. Totally. And regarding one particular form, it should be draconian: the deliberate creation of headless humans must be made a crime, indeed a capital crime. If we flinch in the face of this high-tech barbarity, we'll deserve to live in the hell it heralds...
...just the poor who flinch when they hear the letters IMF. The arrival of the IMF can also mean pain for economic elites, who are expected to dismantle the business culture that made them rich even while it dragged their nations into crisis. In the Asian Pacific, where much of the current trouble was brought on by buddy-buddy capitalism and closed-door banking practices, the fund wants more stringent borrowing rules, more open bank reporting and freer trade policies...