Sentences with phrase «into balky»

Any seminarians awake at 5:30 in the morning could find him down in the basement, pitching bales of laundry into balky, 1980s - style industrial washing machines.

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Total industry jobs cuts, it says, «could run into the thousands as firms assess the impact on their bottom lines of sweeping regulatory reform and a balky economic recovery.»

So it is deliciously ironic that on this very public and glorious day of Jesus» ministry, a day when he will be welcomed into Jerusalem with joyous hosannas, they find themselves engaged in a most unromantic form of ministry, mucking around a stable, looking suspiciously like horse thieves, and trying to wrestle an untamed and no doubt balky animal toward the olive groves.

The easy clutch and light shift action are pleasant, but the shifter can be balky when moving into first or reverse.

The No. 3 Corvette came into the pits first, but a balky rear wheel slowed the stop and gave the advantage to its sister car.

I was a bit dismayed at the uneven feel of the clutch pedal and how balky the transmission felt as the shifter clicked into first and second gears.