Sentence examples for shirk at from inspiring English sources

He won't shirk at making fun of them, but he also loves them and it's this big-heartedness that makes these novels so smart, so moral, so good.

For all the beauty and evenness of his tone Mr. Kavakos did not shirk at sounding coarse when the music demanded it; his instrument barked and bit suitably in the brittle Allegro brusco.

The concern is that if suburban governments shirk at designing better, more compact physical space, the additional efficiencies and comforts of self-driving cars will just induce longer mega-commutes and more sprawl, which is bad for the environment.

The website reports on the sort of red-rag stories about the Muslamification of Britain that even the Mail would shirk at.

A-list actors pledging to be in one woman-directed feature is nothing to shirk at, especially considering one or two films may be all they have time to shoot in 18 months.

They need to see a world full of wonder and possibilities without shirking at the thought of digging deeper to come up with their own solutions.

Regardless of the magnitude of the challenge, human nature is such that groups have not shirked at the challenge, and progress has been reported (22).

He didn't try to shirk responsibility at the conference or in long conversations with me about the murder.

It shirked voting at all (along with those beacons of civilisation Angola, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, and surprisingly, France).

"The official Chinese media is reporting the Egypt events — it's no longer possible for Xinhua and other official media to remain credible if they hide international news that people can learn from the Internet," said Susan L. Shirk, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, who served as assistant deputy secretary of state during the Clinton administration.

The crisis-era investment in Goldman Sachs, Buffett said, "was a bet essentially on the fact that the government would not really shirk its responsibility at a time like that".