Already, countries that have been dilatory in cutting their deficits have pledged to be more resolute.
And they have been dilatory in calling attention to the current sovereign debt crisis in Europe.
Perhaps for fear of seeming cool towards the larger goal, its governments have been dilatory in addressing these difficulties.
Policymakers have put the question of global rebalancing into a box labelled "too hard to deal with", and have been dilatory in sorting out the problems of their financial sectors.
The new prime minister, Guy Verhofstadt, last week promised that his government would show "extreme prudence" and take drastic measures to deal with the crisis but there have been reports that the public health services have been dilatory and that piles of rotting meat have been left out in the open.
"I have noticed that several countries that always hasten to the U.N. Security Council in order to condemn Israel, the state of the Jews, for planning a house in some locality, or for laying some tiles somewhere, have been dilatory in sharply condemning the murder of Jewish infants," he said in a broadcast statement.
Companies have been "dilatory in making progress," Chopra said.
In the debate, Wilson concentrated almost exclusively on the extent to which the prime minister and his colleagues had been dilatory in not identifying a clear security risk arising from Profumo's association with Ward and his circle.
While Mr. Rajoy has been criticized for his dilatory ways, experts in Spain point out that the go-slow approach actually represents more of a calculated strategy advocated by one of Mr. Rajoy's top economic advisers, Álvaro Nadal, who is a member of Mr. Rajoy's center right Popular Party.
Neither party has been shy about using this process to avoid dilatory tactics in the Senate; Republicans have in fact been more willing to do so than Democrats.
