21.   Lockhart also denied that the White House proposal was a delaying tactic.

22.   Sinn Fein has attacked the election as a delaying tactic, but declined again on Thursday night to say it would boycott the election.

23.   Sinn Fein sees the proposal for a new elected body as a British delaying tactic.

24.   Some obstructionist unionist leaders have spurned the IRA proposal as a delaying tactic.

25.   Supporters of an elected commission call the move a delaying tactic to keep the measure off the April ballot.

26.   Prosecutors called the challenges to the plunder charge a delaying tactic.

27.   Advocates of constitutional reforms in Kenya dismissed parliamentary talks between opposition legislators and the ruling party as a delaying tactic Wednesday.

28.   As a delaying tactic, the opposition submitted a motion demanding the dismissal of the head of the parliamentary committee that approved the bill Monday night.

29.   Apotex denies that and said SmithKline is using the lawsuit as a delaying tactic to prevent sales of a Paxil generic.

30.   But Kotenkov suggested that an initial rejection might be effectively a delaying tactic, and Kiriyenko could then be confirmed on a second or third vote.