Sentence examples for delay gambit from inspiring English sources
Eleven Senate Democrats flew to New Mexico two weeks ago after Republicans changed the rules to dilute the Democrats' power to oppose the DeLay gambit in the Legislature.
However -- here comes the delaying gambit -- Saddam is inviting Prime Minister Tony Blair to send in British inspectors.
The problem with the delayed enactment gambit is that as soon as Republicans repeal the law, health insurers would have little incentive to offer plans in the upcoming year, particularly if they're losing money on the health insurance exchanges.
The opening was a delayed Queen's Gambit Accepted.
Given Saddam Hussein's machinations over the years, however, the offer could also be an insincere gambit aimed at delaying and dividing the Security Council as it begins to consider President Bush's demand to force Iraq to give up its unconventional weapons.
It's a risky gambit, rife with costly legal delays and pesky protesters.
As anyone knows who has arrived "on time" in San Francisco after a two-hour delay at, say, Newark Liberty International, the airlines have been using this gambit for years -- except they don't even bother to call.
Then, last Tuesday night, in an address to the nation, he said that he'd asked Congress to delay the vote while he tried to make a last-minute diplomatic gambit work.
Republicans plan to repeal Obamacare next year and delay enacting any "replacement" proposal for up to three years in a dangerous gambit that could unravel the insurance market in the meantime.
Fontane's taste for withholding action, or at least delaying it improbably, is evident in the novel's most famous feature, a structural gambit of daring subtlety: the frustrated heroine's brief affair with a womanizing officer is never actually described — and is only discovered many years later, when Effi and her husband have settled comfortably into their marriage.
