Sentence examples for prevarication on from inspiring English sources

The House of Commons transport committee called for an end to years of government prevarication on rail fares, which has seen successive administrations alter ticket pricing policies from one year to the next.

Exports have fallen behind and prevarication on Europe is hitting investment too.

After some inevitable prevarication, on 15 July 1936, Chatto turned Murphy down, followed by Heinemann on 4 August.

It allows them to denounce Republican prevarication on global warming during the election campaign while waiting for a more pliable new president.

They believe that, although ministers say they are committed to tackling these issues, prevarication on formally sanctioning the Council of Europe treaty undermines such a pledge.

The African Union claims to promote peace, security and stability, but as its leaders continue their usual prevarication on recent upheavals and conflicts across the continent, these values seem forgotten.

After half an hour of phone transfers and prevarication, one broker finally answered, "7.41 to 6.97".

In addition, Kathy's mother's sister was married to I. F. Stone, whose fiery weekly newsletter punctured official prevarications on everything from the McCarthy witch hunts to the causes of the war in Vietnam, and who never lost an opportunity to one-up Leonard at holiday gatherings.

But now, even though Fox News continues -- without conscience -- to pass these prevarications on to their viewers, their message is falling on deaf ears.

Present everywhere is "Turkish Report" by Sanja Ivekovic, a Zagreb resident who turns a report on the status of women in Turkey into crumpled, haphazardly strewn wads of red paper — a comment on the prevarication of politicians who could enact change but rarely do.

Mendez, the UN special rapporteur on torture, said: "I am deeply disappointed and frustrated by the prevarication of the US government with regard to my attempts to visit Mr Manning".