Yet, she writes, they seem to be "in some kind of holding pattern — as if they're temporizing, or muffled by unspoken reservations".
The United States and Europe are temporizing on a no-flight zone while the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the Gulf Cooperation Council and now the Arab League have all called on the United Nations Security Council to authorize one.
The West is temporizing, as usual, so as not to pile war upon war.
Nothing is casually decided in a Honda, nothing is temporized.
From a pathophysiological point of view, we suppose that the effects of IABP (increased coronary perfusion, reduction of left ventricular afterload) might induce the greatest effect in patients with critically reduced coronary perfusion and (temporarily) severely reduced left ventricular function; that is, in patients with acute myocardial infarction who need to be temporized prior to CABG.
I wasn't there to moralize with them or temporize with them, I was there to talk to them.
Time and again this fall, Dempsey has said U.S. ground troops may be required to take on the Islamic State militias in Iraq, perhaps in offensive operations with Iraqi forces as forward advisers or spotters for U.S. airstrikes ("I'm not predicting," he temporized at a congressional hearing Nov. 13, but added: "We're certainly considering it").
The Republican candidate released his 2010 tax return on Thursday (while Mitt Romney was still temporizing about doing so).
Any president who adds trillions to the national debt in a matter of months is not "temporizing".
What we simply cannot do is to temporize any longer.
The colonial council in Boston, not wanting to send the document for fear the charter would be revoked, temporized, claiming in their July 1634 meeting that the document could only be released by a vote of the colony's General Court.
