But recently, Walker's balky back evolved into more than a nuisance.
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But the burger maker isn't blaming balky robotics for the snafu.
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Her hips had become balky, and she had started moving more slowly.
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Cabrera said he hoped to avoid surgery on his balky left knee.
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It had a narrow railroad layout, with balky heat and finicky windows.
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C. C. Sabathia has served two I.L. stints for his balky right knee.
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The Sixers will go as far as Embiid's balky knee will take them.
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Downshifts for acceleration can be balky: the power takes too long to come on.
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Bryant was mending a balky knee before the coming season and did not play.
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The elevator is ancient and balky, and so the family walk up and down.
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The osprey parents were urging their balky youngster off the platform and into flight.
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Vaughn did not have a history of balky knees or a penchant for controversy.
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Until now, users have had to deal with balky remote controls to adjust the settings.
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The toll inflicted by Asdrubal Cabrera's balky left knee has manifested itself in several ways.
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If just one app seems to be acting balky or freezing up, try forcibly closing it.
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Last week, the cause of train delays was not slippery rails but a balky old bridge.
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But Mr. Trump used the friendly Ohio setting to issue a warning to balky Republican senators.
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OF Alex Dickerson was transferred to the 60-day disabled list, a concession to his balky back.
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How is it, then, that a balky coffeepot can bring a jumbo jet to a dead halt?
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The partnership promises to solve the problems of balky voice-command systems in cars and distracted driving.
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Lindor and Jose Ramirez, both switch-hitters with speed, could test Sabathia's balky right knee by bunting.
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Gondolas do not contribute to greenhouse gases, and they soar over clogged highways and balky subway signals.
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He walks to work from his apartment near the Capitol, trudging through the elements on balky knees.
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It works quickly and accurately on my iPhone and iPads, but is slow and balky on the desktop.
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Over the week, I would spend many hours there, cursing the balky Wi-Fi connection that cost $260.
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Itineraries Passengers aren't the only ones frustrated by airplane Wi-Fi's high cost, slow speed and balky connections.
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The responsiveness can be balky and some games lack sound, but the graphics are sure to reboot memories.
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But both presidents shared similar impatience with a balky Congress and a desire to take action when stalemated.
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Courtney Lee has been dogged by a balky right wrist, which has forced him out of the lineup.
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San Antonio played without leading scorer DeMar DeRozan, who missed his third straight game with a balky left knee.
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Yoenis Cespedes has not played since he left Saturday's game early with renewed tightness in his balky right quadriceps.
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His competitive future was a question mark last December because his balky back made even a sedentary existence difficult.
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And for decades, the balky old bridge in New Jersey, a few miles west of Manhattan, has terrorized commuters.
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In addition to the safeguards the law requires, its practice can be balky — at least in the early stages.
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NASA has become proficient at running the station, largely eliminating breakdowns like clogged toilets, balky cooling systems and crashing computers.
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Woods, 42, had not played in the P.G.A. Championship since 2015 because of a balky back that required multiple operations.
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The computers may have been mostly beige and balky, but certain developments were destined to pay off down the road.
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The biggest issues are balky voice recognition systems and problems with Bluetooth pairing, accounting for 20 percent of all customer complaints.
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The video was grainy, balky and awkwardly framed — which only added to the samizdat, you-are-there electricity of the broadcast.
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For anyone with money and political savvy, the ballot initiative has been an effective way to work around a balky Legislature.
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Less than three months into a new golf year, however, it is clear that Woods's balky back is genuinely inhibiting him.
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He missed most of last season with a concussion, so he wasn't going to let a balky ankle stop him now.
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O/U: 38.5 ABOUT THE CARDINALS (4-5): Beyond the balky quarterback play, the Cardinals have suffered from an inconsistent ground game.
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There are also the poems, those balky players, which remain what they are (or aren't) regardless of the scenery that encompasses them.
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Some insurance for C.C. Sabathia's fragile knee, Masahiro Tanaka's balky splitter and Sonny Gray's case of the nibbles would seem in order.
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The balky door to the backyard was easier to fix: It just needed to be rehung in order to swing open smoothly.
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Jose Reyes and Wilmer Flores are options to back up Walker; Cabrera, the infielder with the balky knee last season; and Wright.
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The language barrier and a balky camera led to a misunderstanding between me and Hamad, a boy who I was in effect mentoring.
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The term dates to 1945, when it was used by the military psychiatrist William Menninger to define the attitude of sulky, balky soldiers.
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Tommy Armstrong started for Nebraska (9-3, 53-3) despite a balky hamstring and was just 13 of 35 passing for 125 yards.
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In the N.F.C. championship game, however, Gurley essentially disappeared, blaming his lack of reps on his "sorry" play rather than his balky knee.
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Older MacBook Pro laptops will be eligible for free service for their balky keyboards under an expanded service program, Apple also said on Tuesday.
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Although scratched from Wednesday's start, Pirates LHP Francisco Liriano told reporters that he doesn't expect to miss much time with a balky right hamstring.
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Montreal, which had its own share of boycotts in 1976, had to deal with decades of debt and a stadium with a balky retractable roof.
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For a car with a manual gearbox, the feel and action of the gear lever could become stiffer and more balky in regular daily operation.
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Despite the makeshift quarters and the lack of a shower, the only hardship any of the men cited was having to share one balky toilet.
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Preliminary inquiries into that crash suggested that a combination of poorly maintained flight instruments and a balky automated flight system might have played a role.
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Rockies RHP Tyler Chatwood, who has been sidelined since June 18 with a balky back, is expected to start on Tuesday, according to the Denver Post.
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In Ericson Core's remake of Kathryn Bigelow's superior 1991 thriller, the balky story is just dramatic filler between impressive showcases of wingsuiting, motorbiking and the like.
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For much of the 2200 season, Manning, 39, was at his worst, looking old and too weak with a depleted right arm and balky left foot.
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This would automatically extend the FCA's anti-retaliation protections to tax whistleblowers, and it would allow qui tam lawsuits to supplement the IRS's balky enforcement efforts.
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If this were a network show, "splitting the node," from a dandy Season 3 episode about balky Internet service, would now be a "Seinfeld"-like catchphrase.
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Yet he wasn't immune to wounded pride when Riley refused to give him a third contract year in 2016, citing Wade's balky knees and declining stats.
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He pointed to second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera, 32, quite possibly the team's most consistent hitter this season, who has successfully played through an occasionally balky knee.
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When they return in September, party leaders face the urgent task of convincing balky lawmakers to protect America's credit-worthiness by raising the federal debt ceiling.
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Maybe the high-yield market has somehow got it wrong this time, but it's more often a reliable beacon of underlying financial conditions than a balky signal.
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Gonzalez, 35, a veteran left-handed hitter with a balky back and a one-year contract, and Flores, a right-handed hitter, both entered Sunday's game batting .
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The Expos had finished third-to-last in attendance during the previous season, and their stadium featured an artificial-turf playing surface that aggravated his balky knees.
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But Beltran's balky hamstring has given Girardi enough cause to move him from right field into the designated hitter spot when the Yankees face right-handed pitching.
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With no lead to protect, they had no need for closer Aroldis Chapman, whose balky left knee will keep him from pitching in Tuesday's All-Star Game.
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A county spokesman, David Wert, conceded that treatment approval had been balky and slow, but he said the county did not want to deny anyone needed care.
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Thus a brisk recent morning found the designer scrambling under the balky roll-down gate of a raw space in Chinatown with a reporter in her wake.
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Wawrinka said he sensed something was wrong with Djokovic, and assumed it was his balky shoulder, but was playing so well he did not change his approach.
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Collins said he planned to start Wright in all three games this week in Philadelphia as a way of seeing how Wright's balky back reacts to the workload.
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"[He] voted against the Brady Bill five times," she said in an agitated tone typically reserved for shouting a late-night order into a balky drive-thru speaker.
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The balky muscle flared up again during the Brewers&apos series last weekend at New York, but Counsell said he expected Braun to be available against the Phillies Friday.
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Matz, who started Game 4, had surgery to remove bone spurs from his left elbow on Tuesday; he also received a platelet-rich plasma injection in his balky shoulder.
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Mr. Michel, the country's prime minister, acknowledged that the compromise still needed the agreement of the regional parliaments, including the balky Legislature in Wallonia, where opposition has been fiercest.
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Chao has become prominent enough that people now routinely seek his advice on Twitter on how to heal faster from a torn rotator cuff or fix a balky knee.
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Didi Gregorius has not played at all, Gary Sanchez barely has, and Greg Bird — his swing as balky as his right ankle until Sunday night — has missed several games.
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And while dealing with a balky quadriceps, he was seen playing golf the morning before an August 2016 game against the Yankees in which he aggravated his leg injury.
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Before the event, when the prevailing question was whether Woods's balky back would allow him to finish four rounds, that result would have been seen as an unqualified success.
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It's a bag too often empty because of balky technology and outdated processes that affect members of the Reserve and National Guard — and wouldn't be tolerated for active-duty troops.
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So much can happen between now and then, and so much of his future with the organization could hinge on the balky knees and hips of Wade, Rose and Thomas.
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In 2019 alone, he dealt with a left biceps tear, a balky left shoulder, a left calf strain, a sprained ligament in his right knee and a right quadriceps strain.
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Mr. Byford says he is confident that trains can travel safely at higher speeds and that fixing the balky signals will allow train operators to travel at the correct speeds.
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When we set off squished into his truck, I double-checked that he had alerted the owners of the balky stoves and washers that I would be arriving with him.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump thought he could sell balky Republican senators like Ron Johnson of Wisconsin on the Senate health care bill through pleasantries, cajoling and, ultimately, some Oval Office muscle.
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He appears to have found a home as a second running option alongside Todd Gurley, helping spare Gurley's balky knee from abuse and providing a different look at the position.
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He was a master at building coalitions, a skilled diplomat who understood how to corral balky allies, like Britain and France, and deal adroitly with failing adversaries, like the Soviet Union.
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Instead, their balky relationship was on full display, with McConnell gleefully dredging up Schumer's 1998 campaign for his Senate seat as a vote against the removal of former President Bill Clinton.
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In fact, the new MacBooks released on Tuesday have already ended up on a list that says which MacBook models can get an out-of-warranty repair for a balky butterfly keyboard.
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So he developed a cut fastball and a sinker, put a brace on his balky right knee and became a dedicated student of video, something he never felt he needed to do.
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Woods has often been on the first page of the leaderboard on Sunday, only to watch his wayward driver and balky putting cost him several shots at that elusive first victory since 2013.
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Alderson said the Bruce acquisition was independent of the status of Cespedes, who has been dealing with a balky right quadriceps for weeks and has not played since he left Saturday's game early.
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Indiana won even though guard Robert Johnson aggravated a left ankle sprain in the first half and did not return, and forward Juwan Morgan reinjured a balky left shoulder in the second half.
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Top-seeded Rafael Nadal wore a bright pink tank top for his third-round match against No. 27 Karen Khachanov, along with a generous amount of athletic tape on his balky right knee.
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As commuters across the city groan about balky subways and worsening gridlock, living in the center of the central business district also seems to offer conveniences that are hard to match anywhere else.
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I spoke to seven people—four players, two scouts, and a National League executive, to get a sense of where they stood on subjects like stealing signs, leaning into pitches, and balky pickoff moves.
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English words were starting to emerge from the older children's mouths, but the sponsors and the adult refugees could barely understand one another without help, often relying on mimed gestures or balky translation apps.
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Last season, even though it had become obvious that his balky left knee was causing him all sorts of problems, he insisted on playing in the All-Star Game, which was held at the Garden.
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Of the many ways the New York City subway unravels on a near daily basis, it has one Achilles' heel that remains an impediment to any significant turnaround — the balky signals that control the trains.
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I spoke to seven people—four players, two scouts, and a National League executive—to get a sense of where they stood on subjects like stealing signs, leaning into pitches, and balky pick-off moves.
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His presence with the Yankees, however, should not only shorten games for a struggling starting pitching staff, it also provides insurance should Chapman falter because of a balky left knee that has bothered him lately.
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He said he thought about the times he didn't think he would make it this far, particularly because of his balky right knee, which has undergone at least three operations, including one over the winter.
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Nearly 80 years later, President Trump's former chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, has declared a "season of war" to push out problematic Republicans in midterm elections, just as Roosevelt tried to do to balky Democrats.
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He becomes Marco's (balky, reproving) Boswell not to rehabilitate the man — as he reminds his subject sternly — but to understand why he lied, why he was believed and to investigate his own queasy feelings of kinship.
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With the change, Oregon now boasts perhaps the nation's most painless electoral process; mail-in ballots long ago did away with polling places' snaking lines and balky voting machines Whether painless equals effective, however, is another question.
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But Bradley, playing on balky hips, went 10 of 13 from the floor and 4 of 5 from 3-point range before the break as the Celtics used a 19783-0 first-quarter burst to take control.
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Working her way back from a balky knee that has truncated her year, Williams opened her quest for the 21 Wimbledon title with a rust-covered 1-227, 7-5 victory over the Italian qualifier Giulia Gatto-Monticone.
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New York City is carving ever more space on the streets for bike lanes, seeking to ease the crush of cars and provide an alternative to balky public transit by promoting cycling and trying to make it safer.
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Everyone who works in the White House West Wing, including the Oval Office occupant himself, will be forced to clear out by week's end so that the government can replace the balky, 27-year-old heating and cooling system.
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MOSCOW — Ratcheting up pressure on Belarus to join it in a "union state," Russia rejected pleas from its increasingly balky ally on Friday to provide it with cut-rate oil supplies, insisting that it could not provide any discount.
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The Soviet-supplied arms were often balky—some of the rifles dated from the eighteen-sixties—and the Lincolns were kept in their trenches at Jarama so long that they gave them roofs and New York City street names.
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CHASKA, Minnesota (Reuters) - British Open champion Henrik Stenson, bothered late in a brilliant season by a balky right knee, said on Wednesday that he felt fresh after a break from golf and eager to play in this week's Ryder Cup.
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Everyone who works in the West Wing of the White House, including the Oval Office occupant himself, will be forced to clear out by week's end so the government can replace the balky, 27-year-old heating and cooling system.
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You've heard it time and again: The Affordable Care Act was a federal takeover of the health care system, an overweening piece of legislation that President Barack Obama shoved down the throats of a balky public on a party-line vote.
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Trying to show action despite a balky Congress, and knowing the week's news is likely to be dominated by fired FBI Director Jim Comey's public testimony on Thursday, President Trump is hitting the road to try to generate a little offense.
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Royals RH Yordano Ventura (10-10, 4.26) Plagued by a balky back, Manaea is expected to be all systems go and will face the franchise that selected him in the 213 draft after tossing a 236-pitch bullpen session on Saturday.
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If you suspect your internet provider's service might be a little balky, you can use Google's Video Quality Report to get a general idea of the streaming quality you should expect and compare service with other I.S.P.' in your area.
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The Good Spectacular 83x optical zoom lens • Great wide-angle shooter • Great action shooter • Great price The Bad Convoluted Wi-Fi downloads • Balky monitor The Bottom Line An amazing super-zoom lens on a good camera and at an amazing price.
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Officials had hoped to start fixing another notorious choke point on the Northeast Corridor next year — the Portal Bridge, a balky, century-old drawbridge in New Jersey prone to getting stuck in the open position, causing a cascade of delays.
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When the balky hardliners of the House Freedom Caucus visited the White House earlier this week, this was Steve Bannon's opening line, according to people in the conference room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building: Bannon's point was: This is the Republican platform.
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Amid the ruins of the ugliest presidential campaign in modern history, Democrats are bemoaning an election apparatus so balky and politically malleable that throngs of would-be voters either gave up trying to cast ballots or cast ones that were never counted.
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Such a display of lock step discipline is a striking change in a country that became used to clamorous politics under Mr. Johnson's predecessors, David Cameron and Theresa May, who struggled to hold together balky coalitions and govern without a Parliamentary majority.
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Together, they watch over the roughly three dozen GPS satellites, troubleshooting the geolocation system and minding the quirks of each orbiting craft—this one's damaged solar panels, that one's balky communications links—as if they were remotely tending a stable full of temperamental horses.
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Under federal law, Mr. Roof's record of drug abuse might have barred him from buying the gun he used, but the balky background check system failed to produce the needed information within three days, so he was able to go ahead with the purchase.
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Sure, Spieth has finished an impressive second and first, respectively, in his two career starts at the Masters, but entering the gates at Augusta with a balky putter is more daunting than trying to sneak past one of the club's frowning security guards without a credential.
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It's a rare condition, in this day and age, to read any good news on the newspaper page — but if you're in need an escape by way of wholesome TV comedy, Hulu's got you covered, with Steve Urkel, Balky Bartokomous, and the Tanner family everywhere you look.
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His challenge with the Knicks is to mesh Anthony and Noah, who are beginning to show the wear and tear of a lot of seasons, with Rose, who has shown he has mileage left if his balky back will cooperate, and Porzingis, whose ceiling seems pretty high.
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The health care debacle was nothing if not a CT scan of a troubled and inexperienced West Wing — from the president's sketchy grasp on policy, to the heavy-handed tactics of his chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who issued a final ultimatum to a balky Freedom Caucus.
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Iguodala has been dealing with a balky knee for a few weeks now, missing much of Game 1 and all of Game 37.53 during the Western Conference Finals, and his performance during Golden State's romp through the rest of the playoffs was not up to his usual standards.
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The Yankees' woes grew as reliever Adam Ottavino's struggles continued, LeMahieu and Torres each made two fielding errors, and C.C. Sabathia, who is retiring after this season because of a balky knee, walked off the mound to a standing ovation with a left shoulder injury in the eighth inning.
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Here are just nine examples: You had to dial up the Internet -- and it took forever Back in the day when you wanted to "surf the Information Superhighway" -- er, go online -- you had to attach your desktop computer to a modem that would establish a balky Internet connection over the telephone.
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Quarterback Anthony Russo passed for a season-high 444 yards and four touchdowns, and running back Ryquell Armstead overcame a balky ankle to rush for 142 yards in sparking the Owls (264-21, 225-215 AAC) to a school single-game record 218 yards in total offense in the loss.
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Nadal has been hampered by balky knees on grass in recent years, impairing his ability to reach balls on the low-bouncing surface (an issue to which Wawrinka can now relate), and he sounded a note of caution about his prospects at Wimbledon, where he has not reached a quarterfinal since 2011.
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His recovery is difficult, and as Case writes about it, she illuminates the fascinating and never-ending loop of care in a hospital: Doctors and nurses tend to their charges for hours, often without a break, then hand them over to the next shift, and on and on and on, shuttling patients as best they can through a balky, imperfect health care system.
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"His recovery is difficult, and as Case writes about it, she illuminates the fascinating and never-ending loop of care in a hospital: Doctors and nurses tend to their charges for hours, often without a break, then hand them over to the next shift, and on and on and on, shuttling patients as best they can through a balky, imperfect health care system."
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In 2014, when White House aides accompanying Mr. Obama on his summer vacation in Martha's Vineyard struggled with balky laptops as they tried to revise a presidential statement, they could not get on-the-road tech support from the White House Communications Agency because the agency's staff members were not authorized to log in to computers issued by the Executive Office of the President.
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The gantlet of environmental and community reviews that seems to slow progress today was created in part so there wouldn't be another Robert Moses, who demolished first and asked questions later, if he asked at all; who put shovels in the ground before worrying about where the money would come from, since he knew that even balky legislators could not allow a half-finished bridge to stay that way.
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