To buy time, Miller orchestrated a massive restructuring--selling assets, issuing stock and refinancing bank debt.
Advertisers prefer to buy time on Russian-language programmes, where they can reach much bigger audiences.
The Budget Control Act of 2011 was intended to provide breathing space and to buy time.
Tehran is using the prebargaining bargaining and any subsequent talks as a way to buy time.
Military analysts think that Pakistan may be seeking to buy time for the intruders.
And the president has learned to buy time by setting them against one another.
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This prospect is sufficiently worrying to make it right to buy time by providing a bail-out for Greece.
Perhaps Apple was trying to buy time to find out where the Shenzhen business was getting its wares.
The mullahs are skillfully employing the techniques of the bazaar to buy time to complete their weapons program.
Second, what the Europeans are still doing is providing liquidity to buy time.
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Some of the biggest banks, for example, have tried to buy time by underestimating the size of their losses.
The voters did not elect Netanyahu to lead us simply to buy time.
But leaders and officials find that at every turn are risks and so the preferred option is to buy time.
To buy time on any of the top five Russian TV channels you must go through Lisovsky or an allied company.
But Syria's opposition and international governments have cautioned that Mr. Assad has used past efforts at diplomatic engagement to buy time.
Some analysts have said that North Korea might be trying to buy time with its new outreach to the United States.
So Israel's best practice regarding Egypt is to buy time on the Palestinian issue while successfully preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
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They consider it a way to buy time for a political solution, to improve Iraq's economy and to build stronger Iraqi forces.
He was arrested in the United States in August after he aroused suspicion by trying to buy time on a jumbo jet flight simulator.
The banking laws introduced at the beginning of the month were intended to buy time while the second stage of the debt-rescheduling plan is completed.
At the moment, it looks as if he is just trying to buy time until he leaves office in early 2013 and then hand intractable problems to someone else.
Dell, perhaps to buy time to reinvent itself, rumbled with rumors of a leveraged buyout, with lots of questions floating about how founder Michael Dell would balance his interests.
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Iranian fundamentalists who support Ahmadinejad for a second term accused the reformists of trying to buy time to consolidate their positions because they have no real candidate to match Ahmadinejad.
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So the citizens of Premont are rallying reluctantly around the new superintendent's last-ditch plan to buy time by suspending sports and using the money to make improvements mandated by the state.
Driven to live long enough so that her kids would remember their mother, Giusti embarked on her life-long mission to buy time, and in so doing, she came to some sobering realizations.
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Mr Cardoso's strategy was thus to use foreign capital, attracted partly by privatisation, to buy time while he tackled the public sector, something which his officials always insisted could be done only gradually.
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Their goal is to buy time after a car accident, gunshot wound or massive heart attack to get a person into the hospital and into surgery before they die or suffer extensive brain damage.
Moussaoui was arrested in Minnesota on immigration charges a month before the September 11 attacks after he aroused suspicion by trying to buy time on a jumbo jet flight simulator at a flight school.
Late May brought another summit of U.S.-China policymaking as top officials on both sides tried mostly to buy time to get to an economic even keel before drastic steps are forced on them by domestic pressures.
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