Sentence examples for stalling maneuvers from inspiring English sources

But whether it's stalling maneuvers or rhetorical bomb-throwing, engaging on the parliamentary battlefield can carry a price.

Long ago I learned that when he has a fixed idea in his head, stalling maneuvers are the best defense.

Annual attempts to legislate a ban have fallen afoul of scheduling and stalling maneuvers by its opponents.

In the special session that just ended, the abortion bill did not reach the state Senate floor until the final day, thanks to stalling maneuvers mounted by Texas Democrats.

The tactic has been a favored stalling maneuver.

Finally, just to make sure, he made a sharp left in front of the goal line and began running parallel to it, indulging the stalling maneuver for long enough so that it could no more be thought shrewd.

The stalling maneuver was illegal — Fuld should have been required to pitch to an actual batter — but the umpires let it go, evidently as taken with Sam Fuld's many surprises as the rest of us have been.

The men in ski masks who led the push, he said, believed it was a stalling maneuver by Mr. Yanukovych to buy time to deploy troops in the capital because the authorities decided the civilian police had insufficient forces to clear the square.

A plane that light would be difficult to control by hand, especially during a stalling maneuver, but the computer does it right, ending by settling itself on the power lines with a little hook.

If, however, an intense fire burned through the controls, even the most rudimentary anti-stall maneuvers would be impossible.

Here It the Supreme Court's order.