We read how those experts made decisions on their own, havered, dithered, altered their decisions and in fact generally led an uncontrolled life.
They did nothing—one might almost say that they dithered.
It is deplorable how they have dithered and procrastinated over the years over a problem which has now reached a crisis.
I regret that they have dithered a bit between 165,000 and 180,000.
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.
We must not dither as long as we dithered about the decision on the replacement of aircraft.
It dithered whether to use incineration instead of burial.
They dithered; they talked about the carrier from 1960 on.