buy time

The Communists wanted to tie down the US on the Korean Peninsula to buy themselves time to industrialise and build up their own defences.

How they plan to eliminate their colleague Chris Allen (Casey Affleck) in order to buy themselves time to pull off their next heist, forms the crux of the tale.

The repetition is also a way to buy themselves time as they attempt to gather their thoughts, she adds.

They don't appear to be sincere in their negotiations and have only cut deals to buy themselves time -- time, many intelligence experts fear, that will allow them to advance the development of a nuke!''

"Politicians are trying to buy themselves time so austerity measures kick in and impact budgets and deficits and markets become more forgiving and rates come down," said Wasif Latif, vice-president of equity investments at the San Antonio, Texas-based USAA Investment Management, which manages about $45 billion.

Bosses used to buy themselves time by insisting they were working to fiveyear plans.

The court was told that Russell and Lewis moved money from accounts to buy themselves time and told banks that money would be deposited within hours.

"They may try compliance-only to buy themselves time, but they want to figure out how they can benefit from the system so they can get a significant ROI."

And they have taken a deliberate decision to delay further announcements on school allocations to buy themselves time.

And for most of the game the Tartan Army loved it, cheering every tackle, booing every time a Slovenian went down playing injured (mostly) trying to buy themselves time.