temporizing
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed a key ally from his new Cabinet, bowing to a ruling from the Israeli Supreme Court after days of temporizing.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 22, 2023
US history accordingly reveals a rich tapestry of legal suits, counter suits, interstate conflicts, water theft, treaties, compacts, agreements, accords, lobbying, bullying and temporizing.
From Nature ● Feb. 21, 2017
I think that your husband’s temporizing may be a better strategy than outright refusal.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2015
They need to stop moralizing and deal with reality; they need to stop temporizing and, for once, get ahead of the curve.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2012
And occasionally, as we have seen, there glimmered in some Spanish intelligence a faint doubt as to the efficacy of their usual methods, and then for a very short time the authorities would try temporizing.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
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