• The executioner must have arrived a good ten minutes ago, and he, Atiq, is still dawdling in the streets.

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  • After all, it is sometimes through pointless dawdling that you actually learn something.

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  • Even those who are getting refunds this year probably spent hours dawdling over returns in preparation for Tuesday's tax filing deadline.

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  • After decades of dawdling and delay, it seems America may finally be coming to grips with the health system's runaway costs.

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  • Clearly, the Saudi authorities are guilty not only of dawdling too long before taking on the terrorist groups, but also of underestimating their scale.

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  • Morgan Stanley lost its case with Perelman after angering the Florida state court judge presiding in the case, who punished it for dawdling in turning over documents.

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  • And we had this wonderful young waiter, and he brought us all our stuff, and he was patient with us as we were dawdling over the menu.

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  • During one such dawdling period of evaluation, some 2, 800 Kleinmann's tortoises became the object of legal barter a number representing half the total estimated population of that species.

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  • While most of Wall Street was dawdling around unchanged ahead of the Federal Reserve's rate decision on Tuesday afternoon, technology shares got a lift from an upbeat outlook at Texas Instruments .

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  • Politicians and everybody else involved have to realize that America is playing catch-up because its dawdling has ceded much of the clean technology market to China, South Korea, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany.

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  • This was a cold winter, everyone battened into woollen layers and readily excused from dawdling in the open, and Zwelish and his expectant young wife were more and more like figures in a snow globe, viewable but uncontactable from the human realm.

    NEWYORKER: Lucky Alan

  • If, as some have predicted, the federal district court judge in Wilmington again rules against MacDonald, the case will be back in the hands of the same Court of Appeals that finally saw the light and ordered the hearings after decades of judicial dawdling.

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