Sentence examples for temporize from inspiring English sources
"temporize" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to the action of delaying or postponing an action in order to buy time or gain advantage. For example, "The politician attempted to temporize by stalling on making a decision on the controversial topic."
verb
To deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes in order to reach a compromise or simply to make a conversation more temperate.
He suggested that the Russians, while still fundamentally opposed to coexistence with the West and bent on worldwide extension of the Soviet system, were acutely sensitive to the logic of military force and would temporize or retreat in the face of skillful and determined Western opposition to their expansion.
Even if politicians temporize, Schweickart predicted, "before too long there will be a bolide in the sky over Washington, D.C., and that's going to really focus us".
Pakistan's politicians sometimes temporize about the Taliban; Bhutto, however, after September 11th, did not.
The description -- a dismissive, sleight-of-hand smackdown, despite an effort by Wills to temporize with favorable qualifiers -- is not without precedent in American political history.
What we simply cannot do is to temporize any longer.
It remains unclear how much ground the Taliban would be willing to give in the talks, or whether the group simply plans to temporize until NATO ends its combat operations in 2014.
Mr Krugman sees a great threat in this:Major economic powers, realizing that they have an important stake in the international system, are normally very hesitant about resorting to economic warfare, even in the face of severe provocation — witness the way U.S. policy makers have agonized and temporized over what to do about China's grossly protectionist exchange-rate policy.
In the following years the Nationalist government of China, headed by Chiang Kai-shek, temporized in the face of Japanese military and diplomatic pressures and instead waged an internal war against the Chinese Communists, led by Mao Zedong, who were based in Shensi Province in north-central China.
Elizabeth temporized; but finding that Shane was in danger of becoming a tool in the hands of Spanish intriguers, she permitted him to return to Ireland, recognizing him as "the O'Neill," and chieftain of Tyrone.
The government had insufficient troops in the area, but on October 27, at Doncaster Bridge, Thomas Howard, the 3rd duke of Norfolk, temporized with Aske, playing for time until adequate forces could be assembled.
The Maimons temporized by practicing their Judaism in the privacy of their homes, while disguising their ways in public as far as possible to appear like Muslims.
