| Surely the Boat Race is too important an event to let commercial riff raff like ITV get their grubby mitts on it, she demurred. |
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| Even though he had never even written a six-part fugue for keyboard, Bach immediately demurred. |
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| But Franco demurred and, to Hitler's irritation, renewed his territorial demands. |
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| When people were given the option of not having their name listed, many demurred, and the list became incomplete and not very useful. |
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| While others demurred, like Hamlet whingeingly soliloquising to be or not to be' at Elsinore, you had the path clearly marked out. |
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| I told her I should ask you to see her, and though she demurred at first, I know why, old fellow, she finally consented. |
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| In the second world war, when other stars enlisted, Wayne's studio asked for repeated deferments and he demurred. |
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| The army, reluctant to be deployed in yet another internal political conflict, has demurred. |
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| Another journalist begged him to do a sill walk live on stage then and there, but he demurred. |
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| It appears from a Takeda note of a communication with a representative of Roche, that Daiichi had demurred. |
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| Although the Austro-Hungarian authorities thought it opportune to accept the invitation, Goldziher demurred. |
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| For years now, the government has demurred, on the pretense that these non-trade considerations have no place in trade agreements. |
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| When the city worker demurred, the man grabbed him around the throat, prompting police intervention. |
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| When asked whom he would appoint to the Federal Reserve, Mr. Romney demurred. |
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| And when asked by blitzer about her plans for reelection as governor in 2010 or about a run for president in 2012, Palin demurred. |
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| Even when a moderator was found for a possible debate, the League demurred. |
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| Carrie, meanwhile, had demurred when Saul offered her a promotion to station chief. |
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| Again, I demurred, saying we saw only rebel-controlled checkpoints. |
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| One speaks of a babbitt habit, a babbitt era. Nothing is more true. America recognized itself in Babbitt, it demurred, but it also admired. |
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| The organisers had proposed a similar division in the football tournament, but the BOA demurred. |
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| The tribunal concerned to satisfy itself that there is factual evidence that the operations of A. G. T. are of the same character as demonstrated in the earlier cases, demurred. |
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| The US ambassador to London demurred, insisting it was far too early to put a 'tombstone' over the special relationship. |
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| By contrast the Trade Minister of Guyana, who was introduced as the unofficial spokesperson of the LDCs demurred from that position, and spoke with guarded optimism. |
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| She suggested that he would win easily, but he demurred, saying he expected the election to be close. |
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