There is one provision, and one only, which temporizes the severity of this schedule.
They are trying to temporize, to do little things to satisfy both sides.
At least one modern commentator has characterized the decision temporizing and cautious.
Prevost temporized and asked for 24 hours of truce.
Wilson persisted, saying that giving in would be to temporize with evil.
During the mid-1960s, relations between white liberals and the civil rights movement became increasingly strained; civil rights leaders accused liberal politicians of temporizing and procrastinating.
