Is this just another stalling tactic, or an opening to real reform?

After nearly four years of searching, the Republic of Croatia has shown the difference between procrastination and determination.

Nonetheless, the challenge posed by Russia does not allow any further procrastination.

When it asked to visit a suspect lab within the Parchin defense production plant, the Iranians stalled.

It is important that the international community not permit Israel to use prevarication and procrastination to distract it while completing its colonial settlement plan for the West Bank.

Let us not delude ourselves continued stalling on the Treaty imperils the nuclear non proliferation and disarmament enterprise.

In the context of that hope, it is difficult to understand the procrastination and disputes that caused the impasse at the 2005 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

6. Welcomes the actions taken so far to address the issue of dilatory motions and pleadings, which have the effect of lengthening trial proceedings, and encourages the International Tribunal for Rwanda to take further measures to improve the monitoring and oversight of defence counsel

Winston Churchill s famous denunciation of the delaying tactics of the British and French on the eve of World War II should be a warning to French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Israeli forces regularly try to decapitate the violent opposition by killing Palestinian leaders, as if the problem were a few individuals rather than ongoing political stalemate.

The perpetuation of the status quo in Darfur be it through prevarication in the negotiations, the delayed achievement of a settlement or a loss of focus on the need to find a genuine solution will exacerbate the problem.

Unfortunately, the IMF cannot enforce its guidelines, because currency manipulators are able to stall action. This has been the entrenched and continuing pattern, including when I was the IMF s chief economist (from early 2007 to August 2008).

Europe cannot afford to procrastinate and pretend. Either the eurozone s members find agreement on an agenda of governance and political reforms that will turn the currency union into an engine of prosperity, or they will stumble repeatedly from dispute to crisis, until citizens lose patience or markets lose trust.