111.  In July, Clinton suspended the right to sue under Title III of the act for six months to buy time to build international consensus.

112.  In the ensuing confusion, analysts worried that the government was making hasty promises in an attempt to buy time and stave off further trouble.

113.  In the meantime, he said, it buys time for companies and organizations that are under pressure to change their systems.

114.  In the past, the Treasury has often taken such steps to buy time for a few days.

115.  In some ways, this seems like a straddle-the-fence move to stop the criticism and buy more time for a genuine overhaul.

116.  In this, the president has bought time.

117.  Instead of buying him new baubles and new cars, the grant will buy him time to work on his writing, he said.

118.  Instead, they bought time on the airwaves to fling their mud.

119.  It also bought time for domestic drugmakers to develop the heat-treating technique.

120.  In Washington, Gore was deeply engaged in legal strategy and in public-relations efforts aimed at buying time.