| While all around dithered, he took the initiative and forged impatiently, inspirationally, sometimes recklessly, ahead. |
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| As my foot dithered between brake and accelerator, a lorry hung a left across my path and a person in a wheelchair zipped down the other side. |
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| The Romans dithered and competed for the honor of victory, while the people of Carthage fought fiercely, knowing their fate. |
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| While other sporting associations and organisations vacillated and dithered and dallied, the GAA got on with it. |
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| In order to test the actuation bandwidth, the reference signal was dithered with a signal of constant amplitude, swept in frequency. |
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| And so Danny just stood in the background whilst the soldiers dithered around trying to make things safe. |
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| Yet the CEOs and the Boards of Directors still dithered and their share prices were unshaken. |
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| They dithered and faltered and could not get the roll-out of the leadership coup over to the public or even amongst themselves. |
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| While he dithered, the anti-French feelings of the Amerindians mingled with those of the Americans who wanted to settle the Ohio Valley. |
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| Select to cause bitmaps copied to the Clipboard to be dithered to standard VGA colors. |
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| Here AM screens are applied to the midtones and a dithered implementation of FM to the highlights and shadow areas. |
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| And so, as the Security Council and international community dithered and delayed, Rwandans died. |
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| In 1991 the current Prime Minister when he was Leader of the Opposition dithered. |
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| People continue to suffer from the consequences of street racing while the government has dithered. |
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| While the Liberals dithered, dodged and delayed for 13 scandalous years, our Conservative government is getting things done for all Canadians. |
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| The Prime Minister has dithered and delayed, despite the long anticipated win for Canada. |
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| The Liberal government, which preceded this Conservative government, dithered for years before taking appropriate measures. |
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| Up to now, the Council has routinely covered things up, dithered, and swept things under the carpet. |
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| To say that the UK government has been decisive is a nonsense: it dithered over whether to bring in the army. |
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| In a dithered image, colors not available in the palette are approximated by a diffusion of colored pixels from within the available palette. |
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| Still, we dithered around with first one idea and then another. |
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| The Despeckle effect filter removes the random dots and specks that so often appear in images, especially when the image is dithered to reduce colors or exhibits artifacts from compression. |
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| Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, master of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, dithered about which of his sons to run for sephardi chief rabbi. |
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| Well, I can tell you I swithered and dithered for ages about how to get this right. |
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| In Japan, which suffers from neither high piracy nor antiquated regulations, the cause could be corporate stultification which has seen Windows XP and IE6 remain in use as companies dithered when it came to upgrades. |
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| On 23 September the Isle d'Aix was taken, but military staff dithered and lost so much time that Rochefort became unassailable. |
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| In his 11 months in office he has dithered when decisions were needed, bumbled when clear words might have helped, and smiled benignly while the economy has got worse. |
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| I ask my colleague again, as my friend from Windsor did, why has the Prime Minister waited and dithered on such an important issue knowing full well the catastrophic impact it will have on the Canadian economy? |
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| The government dithered away for four years trying to resolve this matter and the government had the gall to charge them interest for all that time. |
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| It dithered whether to use incineration instead of burial. |
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| So while the government dithered on real legislation, hundreds of thousands of cars were stolen, millions of dollars were lost and, indeed, innocent lives were lost. |
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| Frederick Henry hoped to achieve a quick result, but Friesland, Groningen and Zeeland opposed the talks outright, while divided Holland dithered. |
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| This is a government that makes the tough decisions as opposed to the previous government that dithered, delayed and whispered about perhaps doing things. |
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| They ended up paying the entire phantom tax bill when they never saw a penny of the income, and tens of thousands of dollars in interest because the government dithered for four years. |
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| In the case of banker mergers, why has it dithered about its response? |
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| They have dithered on Mr Bush's tax cuts, and his plans to extend them, and on Iraq some Democrats have backed Mr Bush's stand, some are fiercely opposed. |
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| Angus Robertson, the party's leader in Westminster, dithered over big questions like which currency a sovereign Scotland would use, and by which legal channel it could stay in the European Union. |
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| I know that this could be said about many issues on which the previous government dithered, delayed and did nothing, yet on an issue of historical injustice, one would expect an expedited response. |
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| But they have dithered and delayed, rather than made a decision. |
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| Frugal gardeners will wonder why they ever dithered about the cost, and curmudgeonly gardeners, who think tulips belong in Holland, will foreswear their pessimistic outlook. |
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