Sentence examples for prevarication to from inspiring English sources

Despite good intentions, procrastination and prevarication to date have meant no substantive progress.

In Britain this summer Oxford took a deep breath, held its nose, and decided after much prevarication to accept an endowment from a Saudi millionaire to establish a business school, of all things.

Until that point was reached, he preferred endless prevarication to anything called peace.When he was installed as Speaker of the Knesset, in 1977, his speech invoked the underground heroes whom he imagined watching him, shining with a light "like the glory of the firmament".

A UN human rights advocate has called on Britain and the US to release confidential reports into the countries' involvement in the kidnapping and torture of terrorism suspects, accusing them of "years of official denials, sophistry and prevarication" to cover up the truth.

Instead, even before Joe Biden spoke out, he had made a personal and political decision to take this issue off the table, to avoid charges of prevarication and to deprive critics and the press of a battering ram charging hypocrisy or inconsistency.

Prevarication means "to speak or act falsely or evasively with intent to deceive" (Collins).

After much prevarication, owing to the political difficulties of getting the policy through, Cameron is now bringing forward to the autumn legislation to recognise marriage in the tax system.

This prevarication led to the deaths of tens of thousands of workers.

As "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" makes clear, our hero escaped from his parents as a baby and, after much prevarication, decided to forsake them for the unwithering plea-sure gardens of Kensington.

The government's new plan, drawn up with the help of the World Bank and the IMF, was, after months of prevarication, supposed to map in detail the route out of the disaster.

Japan interpreted these as deliberate prevarications designed to buy time to complete the Russian armament programs.