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• Having dithered over calling an election in 1978, he tried to buy off the industrial disruption of last winter and finally succumbed.

• The farming community, who hitherto dithered at the very mention of controls, were no longer afraid of them.

• For two years the managers dithered, until finally they made up their minds that the school would have to become a controlled school.

• They have dithered here and there on specific items of policy.

• But where the health authorities dithered and waited for directions—which they never received—the militancy almost always increased.

• They have talked and talked and dithered; there has been no action.

• We dithered when we took a clear and unambiguous decision to replace a major policy.

• They dithered; they talked about the carrier from 1960 on.

• It dithered whether to use incineration instead of burial.

• We must not dither as long as we dithered about the decision on the replacement of aircraft.

• While they have dithered, millions of children have missed the only chance they have ever had of getting the best start to their school life.

• I regret that they have dithered a bit between 165,000 and 180,000.

• It is deplorable how they have dithered and procrastinated over the years over a problem which has now reached a crisis.

• They did nothing—one might almost say that they dithered.

• We read how those experts made decisions on their own, havered, dithered, altered their decisions and in fact generally led an uncontrolled life.