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It's a stall tactic coming out of hostile politics in Washington.

Daniel Patterson

I don't really agree with the stall. It's not like their team can't keep up with us; so we just tried to change it up and let our defense take care of it.

Derek Harris

In my mind, the kid writing on the stall door is the least important in the school.

Todd Whitaker

The danger is certainly still there with this type of moisture. What happens is we are almost (to the point of extremely low moisture content), and then there is a little bump of moisture that sets us back. It is a little bit of a stall.

Tom Johnston

This is the latest in a series of deaths across the nation in boot camps. We need not wait or stall for time.

Adora Obi Nweze

Real estate is running really slow right now, and we're probably going to see that stall for a while.

Cynthia Solorio

That's because the cold front is stalling at the moment and moving very, very slowly. It means the rain is falling over the same area for a longer period of time, which increases the likelihood of flooding because the soil can only soak up so much at a time.

Brooke Bingaman

He kept rushing straight into me, but he wasn't doing much. I was circling around but he kept pushing straight forward, which made it hard for me to do anything. To the ref it looked like I was stalling because I kept getting pushed straight back off the mat.

Nick Nasti

Stalling and postponing is not the answer. It will only add problems.

Muhammad Dahlan

The team wasn't sharp in last Saturday's regional. And I definitely wasn't sharp. I got caught in a headlock in the first period and never recovered. But I came back to get third. We had a hard week of practice. I knew the situation going into that last period. I knew about the stalling. So I kicked it into auto gear and kept telling myself to never quit.

Jim Connors

There had been a physical altercation between one lady and another bar patron, all over the use of a stall or something that happened in the bathroom. According to the report, there was quote, unquote some sort of sexual activity going on in the stall.

John Newman

So I fall. I don't wanna feel this small. You know I just can't handle this, handle this at all. And so I fall. I let my heartbeat drop. I falter as the music stops. And you watch me as I stall, And wonder when I fall...

Something Corporate

I was hoping to stall the ball because I thought they would make another run. We never cracked under the pressure.

Major Corley

It's a tactic to stall and delay, and I don't think it's going to work.

Bob Kudelski

We weren't trying to stall, even if it might have looked that way. We just wanted to be patient and get the shots we wanted. We did not want to make it a half-court game. We decided to we'd extend the game 94 feet, and it ended up working out for us.

Rick Sloan

We've seen this before in other situations. You stall and delay, hire a bare majority, put in new work conditions. You meet once a month, two hours at a time, refuse to budge on any major issues, and drag it out until they vote out the union altogether.

Don Crisato

It's hard to play without seeing the time. And it's hard for the officials to determine some of the stalling. But I don't think it was a factor that caused us to lose.

Scott Marr

We no longer have the luxury of time. We can't afford this stalling game any longer.

Daniel Lashof

Those industries will inevitably mechanize, exhaust their resources and decline, eliminating jobs and stalling out economies in their wake. In order to stimulate lasting economic growth and ensure a strong future for coming generations, jobs, industry and income sources must continually diversify.

Thomas Power

An unknown male approached her from one of the stalls in the girls' bathroom, dragged her into the stall and sexually assaulted her.

Jeff Wuite

My only goal is to stall you so long you run out of money andhave to sell the place and move away.

Nadine Lemmon

Yen buying seems to be stalling after an initial round of optimism about the Sept. 11 election receded.

Tomoko Fujii

I can't say everyone who sues the attorney general doesn't have a legitimate argument, (but) obviously, sometimes it's done as a stalling tactic.

Joel White

Home Depot is headed for a stall.

Stephen Chick

What you have in this type of environment is that when rallies fail or even stall, people say it's just time to dump.

Charles Payne

We weren't executing so we decided we were going to pull them out of the zone but that wasn't working effectively. We needed to do it and we gradually opened it up enough to where they had to really extend. We weren't stalling; we were trying to get them to come out of the zone.

Gene Pingatore

She got back the next morning. I should have rode with her. She was in the stall at 2 o'clock.

Andy Leggio

At the time, I thought it was good for us. I thought it was giving us a rest. We didn't play very many kids. I thought it was to our advantage to have the stall game. ... I liked our chances at that point.

Matt Schmelzer

If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.

Paul Waner

We think he's just stalling. Hopefully, this will finally come to an end in May.

Brendan Mallon

I kind of agree with it. I wasn't purposely stalling, but I wasn't getting anything on him either. That's the referee's decision.

Alex Becka

There's a great deal of uncertainty associated with this cutoff low system as to where it will stall, where it will come across. So people need to remain in touch and don't assume the forecast won't change.

Rob Hartman

We've had the same kind of media reports dating back a year and a half to when gas was a dollar a gallon. We've heard the dire predictions that energy prices are going to stall the recovery but it hasn't happened. So far, I think people have been able to absorb the jump in gas prices to $2.25 or $2.50 a gallon. There's probably a limit, though, about $3 a gallon.

Janet Harrah

Conventional wisdom says you stall when you're the underdog. But it worked well for them.

Matt Schmelzer

We attached the horizontal to an F-250 truck and added fixes until the tail didn't stall.

Jim Tighe

The storm seemed to be stalling out. But just as you're thinking it was calming down, it spawned a tornado.

Dan Fulscher

I thought we moved the ball extremely well. In the second half we had a good stall after the 14-1 lead.

Jim Segar

The bill ended up stalling on the Senate desk after senators closed their session early last week.

Richard Stapler

The challenge for U.S. negotiators will be to determine what is a continuing negotiation and what is a stall, ... and the stakes are high.

Pamela Falk

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

Marlo Thomas

The girls work on that, they play keep-away every day at practice. They know how to stall.

David Blouin

Their stall might have re-energized their defense as well. They forced turnovers on us that really caused us trouble.

Matt Schmelzer

It looks a bit like Microsoft stalling for time, as it readies for the bigger battle.

James Governor

There's a strong view that it will be very hard to push two-year yields below 1.75 percent in a significant way without a development that could keep the Federal Reserve from raising interest rates until the end of next year or 2005, so we're stalling a bit.

Anthony Karydakis

This is another stall tactic.

Adam Mohammadbhoy

It is time for the ruling party and the opposition to move forward to bring about [a] lasting solution to the political instability prevailing in Ethiopia, which could stall the progress witnessed in the economy over the last few years. We would like to see better progress on the human rights condition of the country as well as professional security forces.

Vicki Huddleston

What you're seeing is a little bit of an economic stall, maybe in the fourth quarter and the first quarter.

Andy Bryant

This eruption has gotten increasingly sluggish. There's almost no gas being produced. We haven't had a big event since the (36,000 foot high) ash plume in March 2005, and we're feeling increasingly comfortable that we're looking at the sluggish end of this. ... I don't see how it can go on for another year without stalling.

Dave Sherrod

The commissioners are fed up with this stalling. It's what they want.

Tony Sammons

I was mad, real mad that he called stalling, and I just wanted to win.

Ray Willette

There was no stall in the public safety subcommittee. We were never sidetracked - we've continued with our meetings and our goal is to go full-speed ahead.

Wayne Fischer

I got kind of frustrated at the ref calling me for stalling, and I didn't really think I was stalling. It ended up tying up the match. I was able to get that takedown in the end there and score. I was stoked, man. I was pretty pumped.

Jack Meritt

This is occurring in spite of dramatic increases in health spending the last three or four years. The provinces are spending more and more and more on health care, and the wait times are stalling out.

Nadeem Esmail

The refs gave him plenty of time (on the stalling calls). I know (refs) don't want a match to be decided like that — I guarantee Cole didn't want it to end that way.

Chuck Pipher

When she was dressed for a special event in elegant jewelry and silk scarves, you'd never guess that she was shoveling manure from a horse stall a few hours earlier.

Deborah Hazen

The adjustors allowed $500 for tack per stall. Everything was based on the number of stalls a trainer had.

Marty Maline

The U.S. economy has proved to be surprisingly capable of absorbing such shocks and, after a short period, the effects of Katrina are likely to slow but not stall the forward progress of the national economy.

Anthony Santomero

The economy is neither roaring nor stalling; it's clearly out of the soft patch and moving along at a decent pace, and that's all the Fed needs right now.

Bill Cheney

Recession remains a possibility. However, we feel that the strong underpinnings of the U.S. economy and the resilience of the U.S. consumer will force the stalling growth over the next few months to give way to a rebound beginning next year.

Rosalind Wells

That was a huge match. It's the one time (overtime) in wrestling when you can stall. You hold your man down, you win. That was a very close match.

Gary Chase

Even though it may have looked like we were in a stall (offense) we were not, the last three minutes of the first half. We put ourselves into an offense and our kids just executed the offense and couldn't get a good look, so we didn't take a shot. It's not exactly that we were trying to hold the ball for three minutes.

Tony Hopper

One thing that is particularly challenging for us as landscapers is scale. There are huge homes now, and to try to bring those into scale with the landscape is real hard. How do you begin to reduce the impact of a four-stall garage?

Martin Maca

A cruel hoax because none of this money is being made available now. ... Faced with this most deadly global threat, Bush continues to stall and its empty promises are costing thousands of African lives every day.

Salih Booker

He was a champion and it was a great privilege to have been around him. Even though he'd been out of service for a couple of years, we kept him in the same stall so he still felt he was part of things. That's what he deserved.

Doug Cauthen

I am concerned that it appears that the governor may be stalling popular legislation until the session before his re-election. The benefits to the people of Utah are clear. It is not responsible governing to wait.

Wayne Holland

Contact, contact, contact! The eagle has landed! They're rocking like two horses in a stall!

Michael Christian

The market is likely to go into a pre-jobs stall, from here on. If payrolls don't perform as the market expects, the euro could gain even further as that would put enormous pressure on the Federal Reserve to stop raising interest rates sooner than expected.

Boris Schlossberg

It is kind of sad when the referee wants to determine the match. He didn't have the guts to call stalling.

Scott Cardwell