(1) Their unwillingness to temporize had driven their country straight into conflict with France

(2) His strategy is to start with a bold measure and then temporize to pick up the conservative forces.

(3) He will probably try to do what he always has done: make no clear choice and temporize .

(4) Moderate leaders continue to temporize and avoid coming to grips with extremists.

(5) She did her best to temporize , but armed insurgents defied her authority.

(6) They temporize only when political factors prohibit action.

(7) Leaders temporize and dither for short-term advantage.

(8) They exercised verbal terror against politicians, making them temporize and postpone the solution.

(9) 80 years of temporizing , compromising, and finally giving in had yielded nothing.

(10) The council had temporized on quite crucial decisions.

(11) He sometimes temporised , and did not always keep his word and fulfil the conditions to which he agreed.

(12) They were not negotiating in good faith but were, rather, temporising .

(13) He needs to be seen as a leader making bold strokes where others are temporizing .

(14) It is a temporisation : a device for avoiding to commit oneself.

(15) You cannot adopt a radical stance against terrorism abroad whilst temporising with it at home.

(16) Nothing has been more deleterious in this war than the promise of hard force followed by temporization .

(17) Further temporizing with paramilitary and criminal activity will no longer be tolerated.

(18) He is a temporizer who has stood up for tyrants.

(19) Left in charge, he temporized , agonized, and cursed the fates.

(20) The prime minister temporized and allowed things to drift.