“Moderate leaders continue to temporize and avoid coming to grips with extremists.”

“They might temporize with their own consciences, but not with public opinion.”

“They exercised verbal terror against politicians, making them temporize and postpone the solution.”

“We cannot temporise with that Orange monster, we can only seek to destroy it.”

“They alarmed both Howard and James just sufficiently to induce them to temporise.”

“So strong were the forces of Democracy that even he had to temporise and set up a Parliament.”

“Great Britain, it seemed, in an access of meanness, temporised and wrangled with the imperial spirited Butteridge and his extraordinary invention.”

“On the first day when his father formally gave him the hint that he was to place his affections at Miss Swartz's feet, George temporised with the old gentleman.”

“Louis did not exactly say no, but he temporized and did not say yes, either.”

“There have been times in the past when they temporized, stumbled, or failed to advance their agendas.”

“This action can be use, for example, to abort on event reset or alarm acknowledgment a temporized command that was activated on alarm detection.”