41. The United States is providing the air punch but temporized on a ground threat and unwisely insisted on a Russian intermediary. 42. Abe Masahiro temporized , deciding that simply accepting a letter from the Americans would not constitute a violation of Japanese sovereignty. 43. The mantle of revolutionary does not fall comfortably on the shoulders of those who temporize , compromise and muddy up the issues. 44. The impression of Clinton as an ambivalent policy wonk who would rather compromise and temporize than fight for principle is firmly embedded. 45. It speaks volumes that the governor's simple virtues stand apart from the temporizing and equivocation of garden-variety politicians. 46. It is important to remember that permissive hypotension is a temporizing measure to improve outcomes until the source of bleeding is controlled. 47. The very effort can make ( Dole ) look craven and feeds the charges leveled against politicians that they are temporizing their positions. 48. "And since we didn't have a permanent ombudsman or readers'advocate, I decided to temporize ." 49. All around him he saw professors and intellectuals who abandoned reason for self-interest, who sided or temporized with the Nazis. 50. The United States provided the air punch and moral rhetoric but temporized on a ground threat and unwisely insisted on a Russian intermediary.
