delaying action

Your best course would be to fight a delaying action.

Don't you see that the whole thing is only a delaying action?

It wouldn't be a final answer, just a delaying action.

The engineer decided to try a delaying action playing along with him.

There's a price to delaying action on climate and energy policy—which is exactly what we're doing.

But that may be little more than a delaying action, some analysts said.

As it was, they were only delaying actions, and not very effective ones.

It's what I've done all my life, fighting a delaying action.

"No one would complain about delaying action for three weeks," he said.

But by delaying action, they will have helped prevent us from taking the steps we need to take while there's still time.

Today's financial crisis is the result of yesterday's delaying actions.

Instead of a delaying action, you and I, the party, the nation, should have, planned for it.

After a few months, stiff opposition turned into delaying action.

"This may just be a delaying action by the chamber," he said.

I will take two squads and fight a delaying action.

Maybe a delaying action to gain time to build the fort we just left.

At best they were engaged in a delaying action that was certain to spell their end.

In that time, the impacts of delaying action to cut emissions would be “catastrophic” for those countries.

The only course was to fight a delaying action against an overwhelmingly superior force, no matter the cost.

And because we are the first, we must fight a delaying action.

But he would fight a delaying action for as long as might be.

Delaying action, or trimming staff numbers, just won’t sort it.

All the champion could do was fight a futile delaying action.

I think that we can fight a delaying action.

Union units fought a series of delaying actions throughout the day.