| Such foot-dragging has delayed its opening, previously scheduled for this week, to the end of the month. |
| Given that it is the only G8 country running a budget surplus, Canada's foot-dragging is particularly blameworthy. |
| Bureaucratic foot-dragging delayed the formal opening of an investigation for months. |
| In a service business like air travel, surly ticket agents or foot-dragging mechanics who delay a flight can send customers fleeing. |
| After years of foot-dragging and political interference, Japan is finally moving to clear its books of bad loans, while China has barely begun. |
| He had a reputation among Washington insiders for being prickly, abrasive, brash, impatient, and intolerant of bureaucratic foot-dragging. |
