Sentence examples for stall the effort from inspiring English sources

But Evan Hendricks, editor of Privacy Times, a Washington newsletter, said he feared that DoubleClick's move could actually stall the effort to establish privacy standards.

Mr Hale has suggested that Mr. Smith's knowledge of the legal system may help him stall the effort to bring him to trial.

At best, it is already stalling the effort.

But, according to Mr. Freeh, Mr. Corzine "stalled" the effort because he considered it unduly expensive.

The interdepartmental bickering that stalled the effort — a previous regime at Nickelodeon strongly resisted Paramount's involvement — appears to have evaporated.

The resulting internal conflict stalls the effort in what looks like resistance but is in fact a kind of personal immunity to change.

The resulting dynamic equilibrium stalls the effort in what looks like resistance but is in fact a kind of personal immunity to change.

As Congress worked to rein in the two government-sponsored lenders, Fannie and Freddie pushed back with aggressive lobbying campaigns, stalling the effort in early 2007.

County officials were moving to collect back taxes when the bankruptcy petition was filed, stalling the effort, Romero said.

But it has been known for many years that U.S. ambassadors to Chile and Uruguay balked at delivering the demarches, stalling the effort to head off Condor.

"If the battle rages on at this level of intensity, I believe it will only take a month or a month and a half to liberate Hodeidah, unless the international community intervenes because of the dire humanitarian conditions and stalls the efforts of the coalition," said local Ibrahim Seif.