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He dawdled paying the bill as we waited in the car.
Even after the crisis was belatedly recognised, regulators and Congress have dawdled.
Humboldt County first dawdled with zoning requirements and lawyers provided contradictory advice.
We've dawdled plenty; it's almost apéro time and the winemaker's anxieties again take over.
The federal government, for example, has dawdled over raising the emissions standards for new vehicles.
Together, the heavyweights dawdled, waiting their turn in the ring among Bout's weekend workout crowd.
They dawdled for two years on emergency spending for the Flint water scandal and the opioid crisis.
I dawdled into Komedia, the venue next door, to get an earful of Vangelis-type experimentalists, Junk Son.
For its part, the Republican-led House dawdled for more than year, refusing to come up with the money.
It took quite a while to get in contact with him, and once he did, he dawdled on writing a statement.
The government dawdled in its response to the economic slowdown, perhaps because it was too convinced by its own economic boasts.
When Barack Obama took office, he, too, dawdled; it wasn't until his second term that the E.P.A. finally proposed the so-called Clean Power Plan.
The fire has been blamed on neglect by a corrupt Brazilian government that slashed museum administrators' budgets and dawdled at installing a fire-suppression system.
We dawdled our way around the islands, fishing the shallows and the riffles, then shifted to a granite promontory on the other side of the cove.
The last wedding I went to, I dawdled on buying a gift, and by the time I went to buy one, the ENTIRE registry was purchased.
He dawdled on the red carpet at the Plaza Hotel and playfully popped a strongman pose, filling in time before the arrival of celebrities including Bernadette Peters, Leslie Odom Jr. and Victor Garber.
The world turned upside down: Armed law enforcement officers dawdled outside during the shooting, but a 15-year-old kid without any weapon at all used himself as a human shield to protect his classmates.
He recalled a painful moment at a 13 debate when Ben Carson, then a Republican candidate (and now the secretary of housing and urban development), missed his entrance cue and dawdled for more than a minute.
But they dawdled a little as they worked, too: some basking in the sunshine, some kneeling to kiss the turf, some taking photos — digital proof that they were present for an event that never actually took place.
As the second heat dawdled along on the second lap in Berlin's Olympic Stadium, two athletes fell to the track after a collision on the back straight and Filip also ended up tumbling over them in the melee.
The snapshot of current relations between the two presidents came last week when Clinton dawdled at the foot of the stairs to Air Force One at the Tel Aviv airport after the funeral of former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres.
"We thought China would be a great pushover for way too long, and so we let them start the naval arms race while we dawdled," said James Holmes, a professor at the U.S. Naval War College and a former U.S. Navy surface warfare officer.
"We thought China would be a great pushover for way too long, and so we let them start the naval arms race while we dawdled," James Holmes, a professor at the U.S. Naval War College and a former U.S. navy surface warfare officer, told Reuters.
The Rocky Beach was no more than a ten-minute walk from the cottages, even if we dawdled, or had to run back to get a beach towel, or someone got a pebble stuck in her sandal and had to stand on one foot to remove it.
Klimt wanted me exploring the exterior of the Orpheus 1 as soon as we had settled and had medical evaluations, and though I dawdled as much as possible so as to mentally adjust myself for whatever might be happening, I still felt rushed and strange, nauseated and expended.
Although the HBO adaptation of George R.R. Martin's story has never exactly dawdled, there was a bracing aspect to Sunday's episode that every scene conspicuously advanced the larger story -- or, in the case of Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) exacting vengeance for the Red Wedding, fabulously paid off something that had come before.
After deeply destructive hurricanes like Florence and last year's Harvey, which dawdled over land and dumped disastrous amounts of rain, Michael is moving along at 12 to 15 miles per hour, "which is almost exactly average for storms," said Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
After deeply destructive hurricanes, like Florence last month and Harvey in 2017, both of which dawdled over land and dumped disastrous amounts of rain, Michael was moving at a speed that was "almost exactly average for storms," said Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
He had said he would, but had dawdled skillfully and was still unfitly in bare feet and the shabby garments of a weekday.
But when the Austrians dawdled rather than taking advantage of their opportunities, the French commander determined to attack his opponent again. Stripping Vaubois and Kilmaine of every available man, Bonaparte fell upon Alvinczi at the Battle of Arcola on 15–17 November and defeated the Austrians.
Briwere visited Jerusalem after this. How quickly Briwere returned to England is uncertain. Some historians have it that he was back in England by 1229. Others, however point out that he is not attested as being in England until April 1231, and maintain that he travelled with des Roches, who dawdled in Italy for a time.
Thompson had not accompanied the Carruthers on its final voyage. Instead of immediately wiring his family, young Thompson leisurely took a train to Hamilton to explain what happened in person. While John dawdled, his father Thomas had purchased a coffin, somberly watched as a grave was dug, and made funeral preparations for his dead son. Once in Hamilton, John still inexplicably wandered around town, visiting a friend who advised him to return home at once.
Beginning in 2014, some analysts reported a regression in his defensive impact, stemming from a lack of effort and expected age-related declines. During his second stint in Cleveland, his defense progressively declined. After missed drives on offense, he often dawdled back on defense while complaining to the referees; he provided less help off the ball, and was less aggressive in switching. James himself admitted to taking plays off at times, referring to this approach as "chill mode".
Clare was a professing Anglican.Sarah Houghton-Walker, in John Clare's Religion, Routledge, p. 6. Whatever he may have felt about liturgy and ministry, and however critical an eye he may have cast on parish life, Clare retained and replicated his father's loyalty to the Church of England. He dodged the services in his youth and dawdled in the fields during the hours of worship, but he derived much help in later years from members of the clergy.
When Cao Cao became the Imperial Chancellor in 208, he sent an official to recruit Sima Yi to serve as an assistant clerk in his administration. He also allegedly instructed the official to arrest Sima Yi if he dawdled. Sima Yi apparently became afraid, so he accepted the appointment. Although he was initially assigned to be an attendant to the crown prince, he was later reassigned to other positions, including Gentleman of the Yellow Gate (), Consultant (), Officer in the East Bureau of the Imperial Chancellor's Office (), and Registrar in the Imperial Chancellor's Office ().
In the 1990 FA Cup final, he memorably hit a clinical 50-yard pass to Lee Martin who subsequently scored the winning goal in the FA Cup Final replay. He played in 31 out of 42 First Division games for Manchester United in 1991–92, but missed the final few games of the season due to a rift with manager Alex Ferguson – some fans even blamed United's failure to win the league title that season on Webb. He famously dawdled off the pitch after being subbed in a 2-1 home defeat to Forest during the season's final stages.
The building of Campbelltown Hospital had initially been foreshadowed by the Askin Liberal NSW Government, in an election campaign promise, but which it subsequently dawdled over, drawing fire from then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam whose electorate of Werriwa included Campbelltown’s northern suburbs. Eventually though, construction began and the 30 bed Campbelltown Hospital was officially opened by then New South Wales Premier Neville Wran on 1 October 1977 (this building is now referred to as Block B of Campbelltown Hospital). By April 1978, the hospital had increased its beds to 120, including a 10-bed Paediatric Ward. Campbelltown Hospital opened Australia's first Day Surgery unit on 24 March 1984.
By 1824, an estimated 70 to 100 wagons, each of which was loaded with four or five tons of coal, made a daily trip on the turnpike, transporting to the docks near Manchester the million or more bushels (30,000 metric tons) of coal that were produced in Chesterfield County each year. The heavily loaded coal wagons tended to cut deep ruts in the turnpike, raising clouds of dust in summer and churning the road into mud in the rainy season. As there were few options for shunpiking, citizens whose faster buggies dawdled along behind the lumbering wagons urged the state legislature to do something about it--a canal, a better road, but something. The result was the Chesterfield Railroad, a mule- and gravity-powered line that connected the Midlothian coal mines with wharves located at Manchester, directly across from Richmond.
The more I had studied the subject > the more strongly I had become convinced that an eight-hour day under the > conditions of labor in the United States was all that could, with wisdom and > propriety, be required either by the Government or by private employers; > that more than this meant, on the average, a decrease in the qualities that > tell for good citizenship. I finally solved the problem, as far as > Government employees were concerned, by calling in Charles P. Neill, the > head of the Labor Bureau; and, acting on his advice, I speedily made the > eight-hour law really effective. Any man who shirked his work, who dawdled > and idled, received no mercy; slackness is even worse than harshness; for > exactly as in battle mercy to the coward is cruelty to the brave man, so in > civil life slackness towards the vicious and idle is harshness towards the > honest and hard-working. We passed a good law protecting the lives and > health of miners in the Territories, and other laws providing for the > supervision of employment agencies in the District of Columbia, and > protecting the health of motormen and conductors on street railways in the > District.

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