Sentence examples for stalling action from inspiring English sources

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.

They condescend to him, they dismiss his most original work in favor of the more literal and predictable rhythms of "The Armies of the Night"; they regard "The Naked and the Dead" as a promise later broken and every book since as a quick turn for his creditors, a stalling action, a spangled substitute, "tarted up to deceive, for the "big book" he cannot write.

On Tuesday, the University of Sydney Wom*n's Department sent a scathing open letter to the school's administration accusing the school of "deliberately" stalling action on sexual assault.

This morning, Whitehouse and the other Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee boycotted a committee vote on the Pruitt nomination, stalling action, at least temporarily.

Hastings is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, which went after Rubio in July for stalling action on Thomas and another black judicial nominee.

The intent, he claimed, was "to get some kind of money out of them" while stalling actions to seize the homes.

They've stalled action with a campaign of deliberate misinformation.

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.