delaying tactic

noun

variants or delay tactic

: something that is done in order to delay a decision, an occurrence, etc.

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However, others see this as yet another delay tactic. —Christine Ro, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024

Driving the news: The trial that began six months later has moved slowly, mostly because Netanyahu's lawyers stretched out witness interrogations and deployed delay tactics. —Barak Ravid, Axios, 9 Dec. 2024

Trump, who denied four federal charges, was frequently accused of using delay tactics to push the case beyond November's election. —Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024

Some legal experts have seen Trump’s immunity claim as a delay tactic. —Tim Balk, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2024

State and federal prosecutors had hoped to take their respective cases against Trump to trial before Election Day, but a series of delay tactics deployed by his legal team—plus a Supreme Court ruling in June—resulted in just one criminal trial in Manhattan. —Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024

If this delaying tactic works and Trump’s Civil Rights Division vacates consent decrees across the board, Lopez warns of aggressive police being unleashed across the country. —Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 1 Nov. 2024

The big picture: Trump's legal team has utilized several delay tactics in his criminal cases, seeking to punt his legal troubles past the November election. —Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024

The request prompted immediate objections from the election workers and other creditors who accused Giuliani of more delay tactics. —Holly Bailey, Washington Post, 31 July 2024