1.   Involving the unions is a stall tactic, said Jeff Ofstedahl, a board member of the Arizona Human Rights Fund, an advocacy group.

2.   It was just another stall tactic, designed to drag out the trial.

3.   Legal experts said it was probably a stall tactic by her lead lawyer, David Bruck.

4.   Adams called the British demand impossible and a stall tactic against the Sinn Fein demand for talks involving all parties to the Northern Ireland problem.

5.   But the National Association of Broadcasters and the Radio-Television News Directors Association, who filed the appeal, called that a stall tactic.

6.   Corlazzoli said the new deadline was little more than a stall tactic.

7.   Einhorn also dismissed speculation that slitting his throat was a stall tactic.

8.   Failing to decide the matter Tuesday could be a stall tactic designed to force the election to be postponed, he said.

9.   Mendoza, who resigned his post, said later that he agreed to join the coup as a stall tactic until democratic order could be restored.

10.   Some analysts speculated that a stall tactic could give Qwest an escape hatch out of the deal.