delaying tactic

I'll have to take your delaying tactic as a no.

Now, can we cut out the delaying tactics and get on with it?

They wanted to go home, and thought this was nothing more than another delaying tactic.

Of course he knew there was no right time, simply a delaying tactic.

Other delaying tactics can be used for the same purpose.

I think a University degree is very likely just a delaying tactic.

But they gave him no further time to apply delaying tactics.

Miles wondered how much longer these delaying tactics could continue.

For those reasons, it was subject to delaying tactics by Republicans.

But your delaying tactics will have limited effect on me, Captain!

Now, her delaying tactics were putting them well behind in their journey.

I would also like to say, quite clearly, that we are opposed to any delaying tactics.

The student was using delaying tactics to avoid having to give his class presentation.

He'd gained a few seconds to think by his delaying tactics.

"It's difficult to take the French serious and believe that this is anything other than just further delaying tactics," he said.

We cannot create something new through pessimism and delaying tactics.

As a delaying tactic he asked, "Where'd all of you come from?"

No doubt a delaying tactic to keep himself from snapping at her.

Its delaying tactic would buy time for the deployment of additional forces.

He couldn't afford to put up with even delaying tactics.

So the guns were just a security blanket, a delaying tactic before the end.

Time's lawyers in London have been doing their best, by delaying tactics, to see that it never does.

But then he realized that it was a deliberate delaying tactic.

Some have criticized this bill as merely a delaying tactic against the state plan.

Yet these can be no more than delaying tactics.