Sentence examples for was merely a delaying from inspiring English sources

Mr. Connor said the appeal was merely a delaying tactic.

Mr. Tokofsky's proposal, he said, was merely a "delay tactic".

It was merely a delay of the inevitable, though, as Jayawardene nudged Patel into the on-side to bring up his century.

Although at one stage Mr. Rigal manages to heave it up again, this reversal is merely a delaying tactic; finally the ceiling descends and blots out Mr. Rigal entirely (at least until he takes curtain calls).

But that is merely a delaying tactic since Fred is not a coherentist.

Both need repairs that will put them out of action for long enough to make drilling this year impossible before the Arctic sea freezes over again.Shell insists that this is merely a delay to its plans to tap an area that might hold a fifth of the world's crude-oil reserves.

" It's not 'cancellation.' It's not a 'different price.' It's merely a delay of the closing".

But at second glance, this appears to be merely a delay in timing rather than a completely different nitrogen-use strategy.

Interestingly, SB590885 activity against human melanoma xenografts in mice is fairly weak, and there is merely a delay in the onset of tumor growth.

But that was dismissed by the Department of Health and local authorities, who said there was merely a slight delay in certain areas waiting for new supplies of the drug, Cervarix, after the batch of the vaccine given to Morton were quarantined as a precautionary measure.

(How fast would a top-down Tea Party camp be up and running?) Mr. Wedes (pronounced WEE-dis) said the delay was merely a function of grass-roots community work.