balkiness

But from that balkiness came remarkable new sounds.

Then the balkiness of the two solar wings threatened to disrupt the entire deployment.

The United States has refused to sign the treaty, however, and the balkiness stems again from self-interest.

And he behaved professionally, avoiding the balkiness that had threatened his career both in races and workouts.

I had to set aside that obsolescent hippie balkiness and adopt a pragmatic attitude for the task ahead.

The boys, now 32 and 30, took to the task without their father's balkiness and work with Mr. Ireland to this day.

Several hours later, the Shas Party, whose balkiness has unsettled the government since it took office last July, finally walked out for good.

At last Myrdal understood Rislyn's balkiness.

But Anna had experience with the balkiness of international alerts, knew how the bureaucracies of each border authority impeded the efficient execution of security directives.

"Shaking Paper," like most every other song on Cat Power's new album, "You Are Free," is about inquietude, balkiness, dread.

He originally included Shas in his coalition, and withstood its full-time balkiness, in order to have the party's backing for a peace deal with the Palestinians.

Each in his way stayed as surly-sullen as the camel that displayed a more and more dour balkiness at this preposterous excursion from the healthy desert.

But it also has some severe drawbacks, like balkiness - you often have to tap three or four times before the sluggish m:robe responds - and about a million more fingerprints.

Learning English to survive would have been necessary, but inside the slave's mind a natural resistance, a balkiness, fear, suspicion, even hatred of the new language would condition the learning process.

If anyone had harmed Moonshine, or "olin, who for all his perverse balkiness was the only fellow ,he'd ever met she could genuinely profess herself to be fond of.

Mess is robust and adaptable, like Mr. Schwarzenegger's open calendar, as opposed to brittle, like a parent's rigid schedule that doesn't allow for a small child's wool-gathering or balkiness.

-bis spaghetti-splashed shirt had been so fresh that he had put it on again today), and obviously a method much to be preferred for household convenience to the blind balkiness of mechanical gadgets.

"All of what you're describing is incidental and anecdotal," Mr. Kroot said in an interview, and he likened those episodes to the periodic balkiness or inaccessibility of a workplace's e-mail system.

A 22-year-old state aircraft used to transport Gov. Mario M. Cuomo had its latest bout with balkiness today, leaving Mr. Cuomo unable to attend a meeting with fellow governors in Ottawa.

Mr. Goss, however, ran into two major obstacles: the agency's balkiness at being asked to fix something (intelligence collection and analysis) that wasn't really broken; and the demoralization of its ranks from playing second violin to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Mr. Salveson, who had a 10-year career as a mortgage banker and built three apartment buildings with a total of 40 units before the EEXCEL Apartments, said he had been puzzled by the balkiness of lenders toward his project, since the apartment building is meant to be profitable.

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