Sentences with phrase «balked at that demand»

The bank balked at that demand, though it was open to paying a $ 100 million fine.

Most customers would balk at these demands, and yet this is precisely how everyone pays for goods and services over the Internet.

Not exact matches

The dispute began in 2013 after filmmakers looking at the history of «Happy Birthday to You» balked at the $ 1,500 the publisher demanded for the song's use.

But they have balked at Germany's evolving demands for how to grapple with non-European migrants crisscrossing their lands on their way to seek asylum or work in Europe's wealthier core.

A coalition of adverse forces seemed allied against Foster's determination and high hopes: (1) there was potential for a strike, should Foster balk at union demands; (2) 1983 might have proved not even close to the bottom of the recession for heavy machinery; (3) who knew what EPA standards the former owner had let slide, that the new one might be called on to correct?

Some investors might balk at that strategy and demand a greater return.

and when the U.S. Congress balked at providing more aid in 1985 he went on television to denounce the «craven submission of our leaders and Congress to the demands of communism, [which] makes you sick to your stomach.»

As more employed women balk at trading their jobs for full - time motherhood, subsidized quality child care will become one of their primary political demands.

In an era when taxpayers are demanding more and more services but balk at higher taxes, park districts are looking for innovative answers, officials say.

He mentioned Chris Huhne at the Home Office, demanding change, balked by technocrats.

Elsevier is also balking at a second demand by the German institutions: They want the eventual deal to be public.

«Especially as the physical demands of special needs students are on the increase, some may balk at having to change a catheter, diapers and the like,» said Crutchfield.

Some publishers have balked at signing on, perhaps for fear of piracy, MacDonald speculates, but they might be getting it exactly wrong: Brenner thinks readers aren't demanding digital comics from libraries because they are going to pirate sites instead.

This is presumably in retaliation for Hachette balking at new demands as part of their contract renewal (neither side admits to that), which is nothing new.

It's a formulation that stops short of an outright demand for a carbon tax, which Hillary Clinton has balked at.