delaying tactic

noun

variants or delay tactic

: something that is done in order to delay a decision, an occurrence, etc.

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Boulder Mayor Aaron Brockett said the move is a delay tactic used by the industry in nearly every climate case. —Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024

At the same time, Donald Trump's delay tactics with the legal system seem to be working, for now. —Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2024

Last-minute delay tactics from hard line Senate Republicans briefly led lawmakers to worry the government could slide into a short partial shutdown — even though the funding bill had broad bipartisan support. —Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024

This is partly a delay tactic—Trump would dearly love to push back the criminal trials until after the 2024 election, a fact the prosecutors are well aware of. —John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023

The situation itself is surreal: the legendary Sondheim, like Penelope in the Odyssey, weaving and unravelling, promising and procrastinating—and then, after all delaying tactics fail, watching as the tapestry is cut from the loom. —Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023

But fears of chaos or confusion cannot be allowed to justify delaying tactics that deny patients the extraordinary potential of AI. —Michael L. Millenson and Jennifer Goldsack, STAT, 23 Oct. 2023

Lawyers for the plaintiffs have accused the diocese, as well as the Archdiocese of New York, which has jurisdiction over the state, of using delay tactics in hopes that aging victims and witnesses will die before the cases are resolved. —Sam Roberts, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023

DeSouza and his board were in a tough spot, the first victims of what the company saw as an effort by the EU and the U.S. to use coordinated delay tactics to block large companies pursuing acquisitions. —Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 27 July 2023