Sentence examples for foot dragging over from inspiring English sources

Last week, they forced a rare closed meeting of the Senate to look into foot dragging over investigating pre-war intelligence.

Kuroda, with his bent front leg and rear foot dragging over the mound -- the presumed cause for the troublesome blisters on the top of his right foot -- appears to use the motion.

In support, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said there had been a lot of "foot dragging" over the publication of the report but urged the Tories to "have the courage just for once to break some of the taboos about Britain's ineffective drug laws".

Of all the UK, England is sclerotically slow, last to institute a children's commissioner, still foot-dragging over child detention, still clinging to a Victorian approach to the age of criminal responsibility and still, we are now horribly aware, prepared to sacrifice some of the most vulnerable children to preserve the face of the establishment.

They do review controversial plays now, but that's a measure that's made viewers' experiences worse as anyone who's watched a receiver's foot drag along the grass over and over again can attest to.

Mr Trimble, Northern Ireland's chief executive, was being politically destroyed by IRA foot-dragging over disarmament.

He agreed that police foot-dragging over the affair looked troubling.

But the project became a study in bureaucratic foot-dragging over the next two decades.

Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, said one explanation was EU foot-dragging over Turkey's membership bid.

Was Mrs Merkel planning to blast the Greeks again, this time for foot-dragging over economic reforms?Antonis Samaras, the prime minister, need not have worried.

As other regions realise what oil investment is doing for Sakhalin, the Duma will find its foot-dragging over production-sharing agreements ever harder to justify.