Severe weather events such as tornadoes can disrupt business operations, but companies can use weather-monitoring services to gain some time to prepare.
By offering some shareholders a higher price for their shares, AMP, a leading maker of electrical equipment and connectors, is seeking to appease investors and gain some time to illustrate that its management can improve profitability and lift the company's stock price.
In April, he also boycotted his pre-trial hearing, telling the judge, "I do not recognize the justice or the lawfulness of this court," and adding, "What is happening in your courts is in fact a sham, which aims solely that the cases move at the pace of a turtle in order to gain some time to keep us in these boxes without any human or legal rights".
TH may thus represent an option in severely refractory SE, but rather to gain some time as to definitively control seizures.
The plan should offer some temporary government guarantee for deposits and loans to unlock interbank lending and gain some time to figure out which banks can be saved and which cannot.
The Center for Reproductive Rights, which sued Texas on behalf of several clinics, had sought the stay from the Supreme Court to gain some time and plans to appeal the 5th Circuit's ruling within the next 90 days.
Schleck also said that he might have had a secret weapon that helped him on Tuesday to gain some time on Menchov during that final ride down to the finish in Jausiers.
"It could probably be a diplomatic gambit that they have launched in order to avoid this issue culminating before the American election, just to gain some time.
Mr. Qosi called the military commissions here sham courts that "move at the pace of a turtle in order to gain some time and keep us in these boxes without any human or legal rights".
At best, this is an attempt to gain some time -- a diversionary maneuver whose real place is in the dustbin of Syrian history.
