Shadow culture secretary Pater Ainsworth said the deal smacked of "dither, delay, prevarication and cronyism".
As the leaders of Europe dither, the likelihood of the market inflicting a fast solution grows.
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Today, the absence of the usual tough talk by Mr. Trichet sent markets into a dither.
And the Fed has perhaps learned that it is better to act swiftly rather than dither.
Meanwhile, the Senate Finance Committee continues to dither over the details of its own version of ObamaCare.
Having seen Mr Hussein stalling for years, Mr Bush is in no mood to dither with the UN.
So why did President Barack Obama dither full-speed ahead, with the FBI impounding the pirated Maersk Alabama as a "crime scene"?
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Will Mr Kerry continue to press for action on Iran's nuclear build-up, or will he dither while France and Germany appease the mullahs?
"With this one-off windfall from the sale of the 4G spectrum, let's cut through the dither and rhetoric and actually do something, " he said.
Mr Gray said the first minister had "no consensus with himself on this issue" and was guilty of "dither delay and dodging" on the decision.
History also suggests that countries which address their banking crises quickly and creatively (as Sweden did in the early 1990s) do better than those that dither.
No, the assembled media have been in a dither since her "Kung Fu Panda" co-star Jack Black let the news slip that she is expecting twins.
"This is a cop-out by a significant number of European governments, including the UK - it means yet more dither and delay while our bee populations plummet, " he added.
Update: We hear that the Mowbray report sent Under Secretary of State Karen Hughes, who is responsible for public diplomacy and international broadcasting, into a bit of a dither.
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But while we dither over not just how to find a solution but whether we have a problem, the costs of dealing with climate change are rising along with atmospheric temperatures.
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The current situation in the UK is that we are in "dither mode", whilst the political agenda has been set it is really not conducive to the national interest as a whole.
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Mr Lake said he also found himself at odds with the "dither and delay" in the Conservative Party nationally over the economy, Europe, the green belt, gay marriage, immigration and foreign aid.
If China and America had come to blows in the Taiwan Strait over China's intimidation of Taiwan last year, Japan would have been in a dither over whether it could even supply the American warships involved.
Ms. Guillem's "partner" here was Elias Benxon's black-and-white film that first revealed the dancer as if looking through an Alice-in-Wonderland keyhole and eventually suggested that she had emerged from the silvery film in full color to dither around the screen and stage.
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We buy the clubs, balls and golf fashions that we do largely based on the pros' example, and the same goes for how everyday players line up putts, take practice swings, throw grass in the air and dither around the course like they're being paid by the hour.
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