Sentence examples for stalling technique from inspiring English sources
But this is a stalling technique, and stalling in such times can be quite dangerous.
The 11th-hour request from President Bashar al-Assad was widely dismissed by opposition members and analysts as another stalling technique.
"The Deal," which has its American premiere tonight, is a stalling technique, not a mission statement, a stopgap effort to fill the prime-time schedule until something better comes along.
Alix Rauschman, spokeswoman for one environmental group, the Natural Trails and Waters Coalition, responded by saying, "The Bush administration clearly is using this as a stalling technique toward eventually overturning the ban".
Otherwise, I use a stalling technique — asking about the weather with the flight attendant stationed at the front of the aircraft — and while he or she is giving me details of the winds aloft and so forth, I swivel my head toward the pilots, looking for telltale signs.
"What is frustrating about this whole process," Tickner says, "Is that there has been little controversy in the scientific community about styrene's carcinogenicity but the chemical industry and politicians who support the industry have used "reevaluations by the academy" as a sort of stalling technique".
The thing I really don't want to do is start my fifth novel, and the rest of my life is little more than a series of stalling techniques to help me achieve my goal.
It's one of her stalling techniques, which makes it seem that she is riveted by the question while she uses the time to figure out an appropriate response.
After trailing for much of the match Cook became increasingly agitated by Azizov's stalling techniques, which invoked what is known as 'kyong-go', warning penalties.
They also use stalling techniques because they know that in most cases police have only six months in which to take action against the driver and some forces do not have the resources to investigate every case where a driver has claimed someone else was driving their car.
