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1 And for a defendant who has tried every delay tactic at his disposal, that may be precisely the point.

2 Boulder Mayor Aaron Brockett said the move is a delay tactic used by the industry in nearly every climate case.

3 At the same time, Donald Trump's delay tactics with the legal system seem to be working, for now.

4 Last-minute delay tactics from hard line Senate Republicans briefly led lawmakers to worry the government could slide into a short partial shutdown — even though the funding bill had broad bipartisan support.

5 This is partly a delay tactic—Trump would dearly love to push back the criminal trials until after the 2024 election, a fact the prosecutors are well aware of.

6 The situation itself is surreal: the legendary Sondheim, like Penelope in the Odyssey, weaving and unravelling, promising and procrastinating—and then, after all delaying tactics fail, watching as the tapestry is cut from the loom.

7 But fears of chaos or confusion cannot be allowed to justify delaying tactics that deny patients the extraordinary potential of AI.

8 Lawyers for the plaintiffs have accused the diocese, as well as the Archdiocese of New York, which has jurisdiction over the state, of using delay tactics in hopes that aging victims and witnesses will die before the cases are resolved.