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Russert badgered him and badgered him and after repeatedly demuring and saying it was up to McCain, he said "there's no one he would rather be on a ticket with," which is merely polite and doesn't even guarantee he wants to be on a ticket at all.

Huckabee says he'd like to be McCain's running mate 2008

If he was raking them over the coals last year and demuring to whack them today what does that say about his intentions and his ability.

Firedoglake » Define “throes.” 2006

Well, if this Mayor Nagin quote is accurate, “The governor said she needed 24 hours to make a decision.”; then perhaps demuring to her authority at this time when she was a deer caught in the headlights, was a failure.

the cornstalk fence 2005

I remember some of the most badass people I know, demuring themselves uncomfortably, in out-of-character ways, because they were in social situations which they believed required it of them.

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"At one point, I thought Benjamin Bratt had the look," he says before demuring, "but it wouldn't be up to be in any case, it'd be up to some studio guy.

Inside The ‘Buckaroo Banzai’ Sequel That Was To Be, And Which Still May Happen » MTV Movies Blog 2008

You spend years demuring about Iraq and every other boneheaded idea put forth by this Neanderthal administration, but you’ve just got to know about the First Lady’s bout with less than garden variety cancer?

More on the First Lady - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2006