Sentence examples for dilatory over from inspiring English sources

The latter were to have been only part of a much larger scheme of decoration in the church, but Parmigianino was extremely dilatory over their execution, and he was eventually imprisoned for breaking his contract, while the frescoes were contracted to Giulio Romano and Michelangelo Anselmi.

"If the U.S. government continues with its irresponsible dilatory approach over its debt disease, there will be a day when Uncle Sam busts his borrowing limit while the groaning U.S. economy drifting far beyond redemption," said the not always perfectly fluent English-language commentary.

The minuet over Greece between dilatory, Bordeaux-sipping Angela Merkel of Germany and fidgety, mineral-water chugging Nicolas Sarkozy of France is also so agonizing — the fury just beneath the forced friendship — as to be guffaw-worthy.

Why, there was the protracted whispering campaign that led to White House counsel Greg Craig being dismissed over his seemingly dilatory handling of the presidential pledge to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention facility within a year.

Squabbles over Mr. Beatty's maddeningly dilatory tactics on movie sets, his reluctance to share credit and his tight-fisted financial dealings usually wind up with Mr. Biskind's seeing the wisdom of Mr. Beatty's ways.

Most important of all, the tiger chivvied his dilatory friend into firming up the timetable for handing over those 22 panels: nearly a decade after the armistice, Monet was still refusing to let them go.

CGRP (1 μg kg−1 dissolved in 0.9% NaCl) was given i.a. over 3 min and demonstrated the maximal dilatory effect.

Bush soon became dissatisfied with the dilatory way the project was run, with its indecisiveness over the selection of sites for the pilot plants.

But since Pope Nicholas I and his successor, Adrian II, proved dilatory on the question of church organization in Bulgaria (they hesitated over the creation of an independent Bulgarian archbishopric), Boris again reopened negotiations with Constantinople.

SNP (2 μg kg−1 min−1 dissolved in 0.9% NaCl) was given i.a. over 5 min as similar doses have shown a maximal dilatory effect [8].

One might quibble over the subtitle in some instances, and McKie can be as obtusely circulatory and dilatory as the routes he undertakes.