stall for time

US senior envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg echoed this on Monday, when he wrote on X that Russia could not "continue to stall for time while it bombs civilian targets in Ukraine".

This was supposed to be a way to stall for time until an emergency psychiatric response team could arrive and 5150 Lottie, a plan that the rest of the gang agreed to at first.

We wait for many, many months for the trial to start as Trump's team uses every trick in the book to stall for time.

To stall for time, his character arc is merely a bunt.

The clock would be easy to circumvent if the pitcher could simply step off the rubber or throw a pickoff to stall for time.