temporizing

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed a key ally from his new Cabinet, bowing to a ruling from the Israeli Supreme Court after days of temporizing.

Amleth, as he is called, is no student philosopher, temporizing over the nuances of being and nonbeing.

The downside of Ms. Merkel’s flexibility and compromise has been a certain amount of flip-flopping and temporizing.

Now, with cases and hospitalizations rising sharply in red states, these officials and talking heads are temporizing, trying to have it both ways.

Such temporizing would be a disgrace in this year of racial reckoning.