In other words, it is what we lawyers would term a dilatory plea and not a plea upon the merits.
He has merely sought to suggest that other and more dilatory machinery should be used.
It is one of our traits that we are rather dilatory in doing anything practical about it.
They are so dilatory about carrying out the repairs and maintenance which would enable properties to be occupied that absurd situations arise.
My local authority was dilatory when housing benefits were introduced, and it is just as dilatory now in respect of exemptions.
I venture to call that a purely dilatory plea.
Much of the trouble in this case arose over the dilatory way in which the contractor dealt with the claims.
Our industry's conversion to new methods has been very dilatory.
