Sentence examples for stalled hoping from inspiring English sources

Many years later, Mountbatten stated that if he had known Jinnah was so ill, he would have stalled, hoping Jinnah's death would avert partition.

"I was just laying there trying to stall, hoping it would rain more," Agassi said with a smile.

After Diefenbaker was returned with a minority, Washington continued to press for acceptance of nuclear arms, but Diefenbaker, faced with a split between Defence Minister Douglas Harkness and External Affairs Minister Howard Green on the question, continued to stall, hoping that time and events would invite consensus.

A new Marriott hotel nears completion, and souvenir sellers hover by their stalls hoping to glimpse a tourist.

BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel's strategy for dealing with Greece's untenable debt problem was to stall and hope the crisis did not demand action until after a critical state election in early May.

He stalled for days, hoping the offer would go away.

Now that the show is going to have an entirely different cast and story, we have two guys whose careers have stalled and are hoping to get a boost by doing some prestige television.

Whenever the project seemed to have stalled beyond hope, Ms. Burnley said, the geothermal team was able to get it moving again with help from a policy adviser in the Bloomberg administration, Ashwini Chhabra.

Though recent estimates had given city officials reason to believe the downward trend had finally stalled, those hopes were dashed Thursday when the Census Bureau released new data showing that the city's population had shrunk by 29,000 over the last decade — an 8.3 percent decline that brings the population to 319,000, its lowest level since 1870.

We are stalling for time, hoping and praying that the police will react.

She could scuttle into a stall and hope no one notices, of course.