Horror stories abound of long waiting lists, botched installations and deliberate foot-dragging by monopolistic incumbents.
America's patience with France's foot-dragging in the alliance, never great, is now just about exhausted.
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Western governments are clearly eager not to antagonise China, even if they chafe at its foot-dragging.
There will a lot of foot-dragging and nothing will happen this side of the election.
American regulators have been more assiduous, though are still open to charges of foot-dragging.
Indeed, a combination of confusion and foot-dragging has made many financial firms slow to carry out necessary changes.
If Jakarta hints at foot-dragging, it will tempt other members to follow suit.
Their foot-dragging and mudslinging over the bipartisan plan for incentive auctions serves nobody but a handful of moneyed interests.
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Many of the foot-dragging arguments against the common supervisory plan were based on little more than straw man arguments.
Another email (written in 2007) admits that the foot-dragging could lead to fines.
ISAF's imminent move southwards, after two years of European foot-dragging, it suggested a fairly solid, international commitment to Afghanistan's rebuilding.
Yet environmentalists point out that Canada is now paying for its own foot-dragging at the federal level on green initiatives.
Mr Walsh's patience with what he saw as foot-dragging by Britain's regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), was at its limit.
In part because of bureaucratic foot-dragging in Brussels and Washington, many Kosovars may still have a cold and uncomfortable few months ahead.
Unfortunately these innovations have not been copied elsewhere, so the foot-dragging continues.
Yet the coming weeks offer plenty of scope for quibbling and foot-dragging.
And once again, PwC's foot-dragging caused Amerco to file its restated annual reports a day late, on July 17, 2002, the suit says.
But the lengthy delays that have characterized negotiations over other Kazak oil and gas deals (usually due to Russian foot-dragging) are unlikely in this case.
Foot- dragging on this would be criminal as well as destructive.
Not surprisingly, because of regulations and the authorities' bureaucratic foot-dragging, the Golden State's utilities haven't built a major new generating plant in more than a decade.
After much foot-dragging, it earlier this year allowed web addresses in Arabic, Chinese and Cyrillic and plans to do the same with nine other non-roman scripts.
But the Americans have reportedly reacted coldly to this early demonstration of Israeli casuistic recalcitrance, finding it reminiscent of the pretext-finding and foot-dragging of Mr Netanyahu's first administration.
By December, the offshore ban was largely reinstated, so that in February 2011 a federal judge found the Department of Interior in contempt of court for its foot-dragging.
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What some call foot-dragging Mrs Merkel regards as creative obstruction.
Some in the cabinet are critical of Mr Yanagisawa's foot-dragging.
After much foot-dragging by the restaurant industry, a new rule requiring chain restaurants display calorie counts on their menus is taking effect in the latter half of this year.
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There was still some seriously determined foot-dragging on the way to the actual game, but it was a cool enough moment that I decided I needed to keep on keeping on.
Despite its foot-dragging over the tobacco treaty, America has led the world in restricting smoking in public, on the grounds that it damages the health of non-smokers obliged to inhale the fumes.
That this sort of thing is being decided in a Tyler, TX courthouse is an unfortunate illustration of the foot-dragging our elected officials are engaging in and the hard work yet to be done.
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