Andrew flinched from the pretend burn, shook his hands pretend cool.
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Asian shares flinched from testing their 2007 record peak as investors booked profits in high-tech shares.
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And we never flinched from making the stories gritty and intense, and eventually expanding the scope of the story, bringing in elements like Primus, their creator, and his nemesis Unicron.
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It's a mixed bunch, often flimsy, with deliberate lurches of tone, and the Coens, as ever, are unable (or unwilling) to decide whether barbarous bloodshed is something to be flinched from or cackled at.
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Marise led the way past a glass dome as tall as a man, filled with stuffed, faded hummingbirds and a staring, dappled fairground horse, its flaring nostrils painted crimson; Robyn flinched from the horse as if from an old enemy.
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Mr. Xi, who dominates economic policy and much else besides, has flinched from the harder changes needed for long-term prosperity and has yet to find a way to keep the economy growing without administering ever larger injections of debt.
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Each time my boy sputtered something with an evident accent, in the weeks after it was brought to my attention, I flinched from memories of how my speech has shaped the way the world interacts with me and how the speech of others has impacted how I interact with them.
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Most of the great works in the choral repertoire have been performed and the choir has never flinched from singing contemporary works by Bliss, Julius Harrison, John Rutter, David Fanshawe and Peter Maxwell Davies to name but a few.
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Suffian was widely regarded as a respected judicial figure who was a fierce defender of judiciary's independence. He never flinched from his criticism of the destruction of what was once a well-regarded judiciary in Malaysia, primarily by the then prime minister, Mahathir Mohamed. In private he took to referring to Mahathir as "Papa Doc", after the Haitian dictator.
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The first shot smashed through the ship's stern and a splinter wounded the governor in the leg. The Dunmore was armed with 6-pound cannons and fired back without hitting anything. Meanwhile, the Dunmore kept getting hit by 18-pound shot. After the boatswain was killed and several men wounded, the demoralized crew flinched from the guns.
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Siodmak later said Durbin "was difficult: she wanted to play a new part but flinched from looking like a tramp: she always wanted to look like nice wholesome Deanna Durbin pretending to be a tramp. Still, the result was quite effective." Durbin said during filming "I'll be satisfied if they come out saying I gave a good performance." In February 1944 Universal signed Durbin to a new exclusive six year contract.
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As a senator, he was instrumental in bringing computers and computerized teaching programs to the schools in his district and beyond. He initiated Science and Technology Fairs that encouraged students from throughout the state to develop projects that were displayed in Albany. He created the Parents as Reading Partners program, which vastly increased the number of parents all over the state who read with their children at least 15 minutes a day. Donovan came away from his visits to New York City schools often saddened by conditions there. He understood the need for building aid to improve them, but he never flinched from what he considered his “sworn duty” to ensure that Upstate schools got their fair share of education operating aid.
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