Lack of financing and low oil prices, however, are stalling the development of an oil field in the Doba Basin and the construction of a proposed oil pipeline through Cameroon.
Although independence was attained in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR, true freedom remains elusive as many of the former Soviet elite remain entrenched, stalling efforts at economic reform, privatization, and civic liberties.
Although independence was achieved in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR, true freedom remains elusive, as many of the former Soviet elite remain entrenched, stalling efforts at economic reform, privatization, and civil liberties.
You've kept me stalling for the last five minutes.
I want to know whether you were stalling on Slimmy Jack, or not.
I was for stalling the press and working all night if necessary to go into every aspect of the sighting.
He said that the newspapers were after him, since the sheriff's office had inadvertently leaked the story, but that he had been stalling them off pending our arrival.
I've keptstalling from day to day, because there were also indications that your grabber friends might be getting set to swing at you finally.
I've come close to getting impatient with them a few times--had the feeling they were stallingme off and holding back information.
He'd been considering stalling while he demanded exactly such things.
In other words, this was the first experience of 'stalling on a turn,' which is a danger against which all embryo pilots have to guard in the early stages of their training.
By shifting his position farther and farther back the operator finally achieved an undulating flight of a little over 300 feet, but to obtain this success he had to use full power of the rudder to prevent both stalling and nose-diving.
He was stalling for time but as he was stalling he was getting his strength back.
The words were easily spoken but Zen knew that West was actually stalling for time.
Listening, Zen again had the impression that the craggy man was stalling for time again.
As it settled Don spiraled down, far enough away to make his pass at the water, power-stalling to a safe drop onto the surface.
But the smaller ship's pilot, with gun full open, nose up, seemed almost to leap upward before he reached the stalling point.
That is why I keep the nose level for six or seven seconds in order to attain a safe margin above stalling point before beginning to climb.
She knew that when a plane leaves the ground its speed is not far above stalling point.
Any attempt to pull it off prematurely will result in a take off at the stalling point, where control is uncertain.
Show us the gunk that is always laying the blame for his own failure to lack of efficiency and system in his employer’s business, and we’ll show you a gunk who is stalling for fair.
Lack of financing, however, is stalling the development of a southern oil field and the construction of a proposed oil pipeline through Cameroon.
And though Barker's plane reached the stalling point, and fell over sluggishly on wing to present a perfect target for the pilots and gunners above, not a single Nazi sliced down in a dive to pick off the Englishman.
Noses tilted upward close to the stalling point, the gliders climbed up in the sunset flooded heavens until they were no more than a couple of specks in the sky.
The nose of Freddy's stalling Spitfire followed him around.
We could see where waterfalls were rushing in the little glens at the head of the dale, and the shadow of hills in the lake, and the remotest village, Stalling Busk, said to be a place of unusual thrift.
When moving less than four miles an hour or when about to stall on a grade, set the engines working simple; changing to compound when the danger of stalling is over or the speed is more than four miles an hour.
There is danger of knocking out cylinder heads, cutting the valves, stalling on some grade or getting on some train's time because the engine cannot be worked to its proper power.
He is in fear of stalling and consequent loss of control.
A machine out of control, due often to stalling and falling through the air, spins slowly as it drops nose first toward the ground.
Meaning no offense, George, stalling is all right in politics--but this time you've carried this stalling act a little too far.
Could Jeff succeed in stalling Schiml, especially if the rumors spinning down the dark corridors were true?
When they come back, we'll have a time stalling them again.
His mind raced frantically, searching for some way of stalling things, some way of slowing down the red tape of testing and assignment, to give him time to complete his own mission and get out.
Stalling to the rogue; an ancient ceremony of instituting a candidate into the society of rogues, somewhat similar to the creation of a herald at arms.
There was no way out, no stalling them any longer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stalling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
