balked

Moblin was started because MS balked at making Windows for a Intel chip that didn't offer PCI enumeration.

BeOS was Apple's preferred choice for the OS X rebuild but they balked at the price JLG set.

When developers balked at that idea Apple reluctantly laid out plans for native applications.

A few artists balked at this, and expressed strong disagreements based on the view that artists should retain full rights over distribution.

These vendors typically have balked on my contract rate expectations, that I get doing big data analytics.

This seems to be the thing that Fusion Garage's investors balked at.

Some people balked at his potential 8% loss on the trade, but it also meant that he was not betting the farm on the trade.

I'm sure they could have licensed the equivalent code from someone like Oracle, but the CFO would have probably balked at the costs.

Other companies have balked at ponying up for ads on a service that still lacks some of the basic targeting and measurement tools now standard in digital advertising.

On the fourth throw I balked, which is a permissible stall tactic.

When we started discussing salary while setting up an on-site the recruiter balked at the salary delta I was asking for, not the absolute number.

Plus, when I've sought help, everyone balked at me using 3.

You can get those under a commercial license, too." Unity balked.

I know a few very needy people who balked several times at "fake experience".

At first I balked at a computer language being so "big" instead of being, say, a functional language that can import yont of functions in a standard library.

The recruiter balked at my question about why they switched to Ruby on Rails, saying that, "anyone who thinks Ruby doesn't scale frankly doesn't know what they're talking about." My intent wasn't even to question the validity of the question, but the guy immediately got defensive.