Sentence examples for procrastinated from inspiring English sources

Bad news for budding film-makers seeking to turn procrastinated hours into box-office gold.

The government has promised to fix the tariff problem, but has procrastinated over doing so.Officials hope that a few months of economising will see Brazil through until the start of the rainy season in November, and that, by next year, generating and transmission capacity will have expanded enough to prevent shortages.

On learning of his opponent's disadvantage, the southern commander would have had his swiftest soldiers, Stonewall Jackson's "foot cavalry", on the march within the hour, with the dependable James Longstreet not far behind.As it was, the over-cautious McClellan procrastinated although he had almost twice as many men as his foe.

The EU has procrastinated and hummed and hawed.

As they demanded our passports and ordered us to leave with them, we procrastinated for as long as possible, hiding memory cards filled with photos and address books listing the phone numbers of people who had talked to us.

But in the absence of adequate competition, that is not going to happen.To get the discussion going, we suggested that the deregulators had done a miserable job of ensuring that existing carriers complied with market-opening measures; and that the incumbent telephone operators had procrastinated every bit as much as they were expected to do over giving new entrants access to the local loop.

The Israelis procrastinated, missing deadlines for withdrawal and ceaselessly building ever-expanding settlements on the land that was destined to be Palestine.

Since 2001, successive governments have procrastinated over the extension.

He procrastinated to excess.

As usual, Berg procrastinated at first.

Instead, the king procrastinated for several months, offering no clear lead or firm policy.