Typically, the Clinton Administration has dawdled over asking Congress for the equipment necessary to strengthen the Colombian military.

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Since then, Spain and Portugal have erased most traces of their authoritarian and statist past, whereas Turkey has dawdled.

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It has, for example, dawdled over a bill that would supposedly enforce the right to education, because it fears the practicalities.

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When Aimar played a short ball to Di Maria, Marouane Fellaini dawdled in defence and another smart cross proved easy pickings for Cardozo.

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On a recent US Airways flight, my computer was slower than it is at home and dawdled a bit as I searched Stubhub for tickets to baseball's spring training.

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Even then they had dawdled.

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