Translation of "Auf zeit zu spielen" in English

Fischler warned the candidate country to play on time.

See, most coaches play for overtime.

It's useless for you guys to stall for time.

Here, the caller seems to be temporizing.

He therefore decided to play for time.

I call on Iran to stop playing for time.

You can continue to play at the same level indefinitely.

An impasse is inevitable, so playing for time is not a solution.

They have therefore decided to arm themselves with patience and play a waiting game.

The visitors now putted on the time wasting tactic and just tried to clear the ball off.

When the fuse to the powder keg has already been lit, it’s highly dangerous to play for time.

We won’t accept negotiations which are merely a means of playing for time.

So far, the regime has used negotiations only to gain time.

I would ask the Council and the Commission once again not to play for time, but to send the text now so that we can deal with it.

I also ask that we Europeans do not only think about playing for time in order to delay the process of rectifying the underlying injustices.

I firmly believe that a negotiating approach that allowed the warring parties to play for time would fail.

The first was to buy time, by pretending that all member countries, though not equally ready to act, shared the same ultimate goal of “ever closer union.”

In pursuing our goal of economic and social renewal for Europe we cannot afford to be irresolute, and we cannot afford to delay.

The Commission therefore seems forced to play for time, to resort to compromise between the wishes of a Parliament which are mainly supranational and the wishes of the Member States which are not.

The International Monetary Fund's wake-up call sheds welcome light on the EU's unrealistic and opportunistic policy in the Greek crisis, the centre-right daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung writes in praise: "For political and economic reasons the governments of the creditor countries have every interest in playing for time at least until the end of their own term in office.

For example, if you enabled "Switch automatically between Wi-Fi and cellular networks to maintain a stable Internet connection" and it switches to a cellular connection, the music will stop playing after a while and you need to reconnect.

The authorities are trying to outwait the demonstrators in order to regain control of the streets while also proffering various meaningless cosmetic concessions.

In a desperate attempt to play for time, the Macron government postponed and then announced the cancellation of the fuel tax that provoked the initial protests.

With this announcement he stands in the tradition of his predecessors. So far, the regime has used negotiations only to gain time.

They had to be on time to feed, water, play with them, clean their homes of debris.