'stall action' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a delay or a pause in a process or activity. For example: "After a few days of negotiations, both sides have come to an agreement to stall action on the issue until further notice."
The legislature's rules allow any three members to stall action for months with filibusters.
But now the Democratic majority in the Assembly, with an eye on the same election, is trying to stall action.
Angering Republicans who lead the House, Mr. Reid kept the Senate shuttered on Sunday, in a calculated move to stall action on the House measure until Monday afternoon, just hours before the government's spending authority runs out at midnight.
THE German chancellor, Angela Merkel, had hoped to stall action on the Greek debt crisis until after regional elections on Sunday May 9th in North Rhine-Westphalia, the country's most populous and economically productive state.
Any government that wanted to stall action could have played up the importance of the emails and called for more enquiries, but that didn't happen, so I think they had less of an impact than some people were claiming".
This conservative bias has had significant impacts on policy making at a national level; the scientific hedging has been used by mischevious or unethical climate change denying politicians to stall action, while governments with good will have underestimated the threats.
But it was arguments about the lack of randomized trials that aided and abetted the tobacco industry's efforts to stall actions against their poisonous product for years.
They've stalled action with a campaign of deliberate misinformation.
By stalling action on a new inspection system, they could indefinitely postpone any resolution of the Iraq crisis.
Senate Democrats expressed confidence that they had the upper hand politically, and they asserted that Republicans were stalling action on an issue popular with voters.
Even though Ms. Quinn passed a Council bill to provide paid sick leave, she stalled action on the measure for so long that she was widely viewed as an opponent, which hurt her credibility as a fighter for women.
