In September 2010, the writer Stephen Beresford was about to leave a meeting with film producer David Livingstone when he was asked: "Is there any story you are burning to write?" "Well, there is one," he replied, hesitating at the door, "but no one is ever going to make it".
Romelu Lukaku made no mistake from the spot, hesitating in his run-up before coolly rolling the ball into the corner for his 19th goal of the season.
One reason why the army is hesitating is that it knows resistance would greet any move into the red-shirt camp.
Moreover, they argue, the Democrats would be opening a can of worms by changing the rules with a simple majority: if the Republicans gain the upper hand at the next election, they would feel no compunction about doing the same.A few Democrats are hesitating.
Volvo, says Mr Johansson, expects customers to start hesitating over big purchases.
The opposition, after hesitating between calling for a boycott or a no vote, had little time to campaign against it.
In a much-noticed essay in 2004, Sadik Al-Azm, a professor of philosophy at the University of Damascus, said the modern Arabs had become "the Hamlet of our times, doomed to unrelieved tragedy, forever hesitating, procrastinating and wavering between the old and the new".
Mr Chirac, it is said, goes on hesitating.
But it sounded odd, given that Mr Obama has been hesitating to commit more forces to the war in Afghanistan, which he used to call "a war of necessity" that was "fundamental to the defence of our people".Mr Obama told the troops that he would not risk their lives unless it was absolutely necessary.
Mr Christie, who is turning around a Democratic state by taking on Mr Obama's friends in the public-sector unions, says he is not running; others, including Mr Daniels, are hesitating.
Already Britain, the leader of the Afghan peacekeeping force, is hesitating about extending its operations outside Kabul and beyond its six-month mandate.The administration also wants to avoid a bust-up with Russia over Iraq.
