Sentences with phrase «of balky»

The conflict started in March, when Faso championed an amendment to the Obamacare replacement bill that was intended to secure the votes of balky Republicans in New York's House delegation.

Tiger, no fan of balky greens, complained about the pace even before kickoff.

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He tells the story of an employee who, having summoned the tech to fix a balky printer, demanded the IT guy fix his glasses, too.

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.»

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.

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.

Then there are the stories of getting my biographer's job done amidst the often sluggish realities of Vatican life: stories that wouldn't have fit in Witness to Hope and The End and the Beginning, but which now retrospectively illuminate, not only my own adventures in Rome (and elsewhere), but the accomplishment of John Paul II in getting the balky machinery around him to work as well as it did under his creative, courageous, firm, and collaborative leadership.

But he had critical flaws (balky hands, lack of sideline awareness, positional inflexibility) that spelled the end for his tenure here.

Jordan Spieth, but for an uncharacteristically balky flat stick in the final round of last month's British Open, might be going for the calendar grand slam this week at the PGA Championship.

«It came down to the last hole, last putt,» said Ko, whose penultimate shot lipping out closed out a spate of uncharacteristically balky play with her flat stick.

Diego Costa has been given the all - clear after a balky hamstring kept him out of the past two games.

15 One of the most famous mechanical stunt actors — the shark in Jaws — was famously balky.

«A balky brake appears to be affecting drill feed mechanism performance,» said Curiosity Deputy Project Manager Steven Lee, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

In this case, getting the youngest daughter to the eponymous contest despite the unforgiving desert from Albuquerque to Los Angeles, a balky VW bus, a father who dreams of being a motivational superstar are hanging in the balance, a son with a vow of silence, and a grandfather who snorts heroin, and a brother - in - law who is both suicidal and the nation's foremost Proust scholar, and in the midst of all this is a mother who is trying to keep it all together using pretty much baling wire and chewing gum.

Intrusive regulations, petty bureaucracy, and balky decision making have bizarrely come to be treated as part of the schoolhouse culture.

For the better part of a week, the school's network teetered between balky and downright hostile, often taking as long as 10 minutes to load a single page.

We realize the White House website was balky at times and the signing process was a bit cumbersome, requiring multiple steps, but we appreciate your persistence in following through and sending Washington leaders the message that we need a new, more comprehensive vision of education that meets students» diverse needs and recognizes the shared responsibility of families, schools, and communities in preparing students for the future.

Both variations of the 9 - speed are crisp and responsive (noticeably more so in manual and sport modes) without acting balky or awkward at lower speeds.

That's in stark contrast to the Miura, which has a balky, heavy, and recalcitrant shift linkage — and it's even more impressive given that the Bora's linkage carries your right hand's intentions to the very back of the car.

WASHINGTON - The wait may finally be over, if you're an owner of a 1991 - 96 General Motors Corp. sport - utility vehicle, pickup or van with balky anti-lock brakes.

A mandatory four - speed automatic replaces the standard five - speed manual of the non-turbo STE. The SHO has lacked broad appeal because it is not available with an automatic, and its five - speed suffers from a sloppy, balky, shifter.

The much - maligned Getrag MT82 gearbox of the previous generation is still present, but the shift linkage — long suspected to be the true culprit in the Coyote Mustang's often balky shift action — has been heavily revised, and the improvements are palpable.

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.

The city car still only seats two - hence the Fortwo name - but it's gaining the choice of either a five - speed manual or a six - speed dual - clutch automated manual transmission to replace last year's balky gearbox.

The fact is that the average consumer is desperately FLEEING from all the myriad of Windows problems they've been forced to endure for decades, namely a balky, buggy, brittle virus - prone OS that does nothing except get in the way.

Sadly, not everyone who wants a pet can live with one, whether it's because of health issues, a balky landlord, a demanding work schedule or another reason.

Prosperity in the 21st century almost always comes with an expectation of freedom of movement, increasingly in cars, as people abandon crowded buses or balky trains.