Exempel på dilatory

• Both studies are difficult, excessively compressed in some places, dilatory in others, and both could have profited from a stronger editorial hand.

• Thus, were the opposition's dilatory tactics particularly troublesome, time could be extended.

• However, the problem is also due to the courts being incredibly dilatory.

• Just because someone has been a bit dilatory in coming up with the money does not make for a bad debt.

• I do not think this was dilatory or in any way delaying tactics.

• I have pointed out the dilatory nature of this business and the fact that it is at variance with the understanding we had.

• This rehearing provision has caused much unnecessary work and has enabled dilatory taxpayers to delay payment.

• Our industry's conversion to new methods has been very dilatory.

• Much of the trouble in this case arose over the dilatory way in which the contractor dealt with the claims.

• I venture to call that a purely dilatory plea.

• My local authority was dilatory when housing benefits were introduced, and it is just as dilatory now in respect of exemptions.

• They are so dilatory about carrying out the repairs and maintenance which would enable properties to be occupied that absurd situations arise.

• It is one of our traits that we are rather dilatory in doing anything practical about it.

• He has merely sought to suggest that other and more dilatory machinery should be used.

• In other words, it is what we lawyers would term a dilatory plea and not a plea upon the merits.