| When the city worker demurred, the man grabbed him around the throat, prompting police intervention. |
| Thus it was not owing to any retraction of his gift, or reconsideration of it, that he demurred. |
| And when asked by blitzer about her plans for reelection as governor in 2010 or about a run for president in 2012, Palin demurred. |
| When asked whom he would appoint to the Federal Reserve, Mr. Romney demurred. |
| Even though he had never even written a six-part fugue for keyboard, Bach immediately demurred. |
| Surely the Boat Race is too important an event to let commercial riff raff like ITV get their grubby mitts on it, she demurred. |
