dilly-dallying

• “Bhatti said that he had requested additional security but that law enforcement authorities were "dilly-dallying.”

  The Washington Post: Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan's sole Christian minister, is assassinated in Islamabad

• “And even those 5½-hour rounds on Friday were caused not by the dilly-dallying of meticulous players, but by brutal, gusting winds that showed off the rarely seen masterpiece, Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Australia, at its strategic best.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Majesty at Royal Melbourne

• “Stop the dilly-dallying and do something about the problem. statatheleft says:”

  Matthew Yglesias » Obstructionism from Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) Boosting Lord’s Resistance Army

• “The most important thing we can do is quit dilly-dallying around about whatever we're going to do in terms of legislation and make it long term," said Murphy, of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.”

  The Huffington Post: Cleantech Future Threatened By Weak Venture Funding

• “With long delays in setting up the green investment bank, further dilly-dallying over when it will be able to function as a proper bank, and a green leal project to insulate homes with no sense of direction, we've had a year of delays and broken promises.”

  The Guardian: UK slips down global green investment rankings

• “ET16: There's no dilly-dallying at the changeover, with both sets of players eager to get home quickly and watch tonight's episode of Frozen Planet, which they've no doubt recorded.”

  The Guardian: Manchester United v Crystal Palace

• “TNT's looks-like-a-hit Falling Skies is pure popcorn TV, the sort of show ABC's dilly-dallying and now-defunct V should have been.”

  Roush Review: Break Out the Popcorn for Summer Sci-Fi

• “The school was dilly-dallying and I'm a make-it-happen person," says Mr. Koppelman, who is also a trustee of the Brooklyn College Foundation.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Graduate Helps Brooklyn College Acquire Undeveloped Parcel

• “Sooner or later, we explode with it — in the form of anger toward our spouse, who comes dilly-dallying in after a day of adult interaction, interaction with people WHO WILL LISTEN.”

  The Other Side Of Anger | Her Bad Mother

• “After months of dilly-dallying, the Chinese government has finally decided to abandon its policy of "negotiations only" with regards to the Iranian nuclear program.”

  The Huffington Post: Meir Javedanfar: Sanctions Will Make Tehran Take Notice

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