kick the can down the road
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[Ovay]kick the can down the road
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- Ronald Lehman, deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategic and theater nuclear bombs, said the United States was satisfied with its land-based deterrent for many years and "there was a tendency to kick the can down the road and not pay enough attention to its problems. – Will MX Succeed This Time?, Bennington Banner, Bennington, VT, pejy 8, 5 Aprily 1983
- To continue haggling over points on which a consensus seems impossible, Lehman said, is to "just keep kicking the can down the road." – Jeff Nesmith; Andrew Alexander, Will End to MX Stalemate Provide Long-Term Solution?, The Post, West Palm Beach, FL, l, 15, pejy A10, 10 Aprily 1983
- [R]eaching an alliance-wide consensus on them will be difficult. The natural temptation is to cling to the status quo, tinker on the edges or kick the can down the road. – F. Stephen Larrabee; Richard Sokolsky, In a New World, NATO Must Retool Its Strategic Concept, The International Herald Tribune, 13 Desambra 1997
- Fundamentalism is a product of decades of official complicity, cowardice and appeasement. Sooner or later, Mr Sharif will be forced to realise that. Until then, he is merely kicking the can down the road. – Pakistan: kicking the can down the road, The Guardian, 27 Septambra 2013
- one might easily despair and kick the can down the road by waiting for the next generation of computers and physical and chemical probes that can be employed for in situ measurements of chemical processes before starting to implement the research program described. – Proceedings of the 240 Conference: Science's Great Challenges, Aaron R. Dinner, John Wiley & Sons, 9781118959619, pejy 132, 2014
- It could not have more obvious that was urgently needed - yet all the new Labour Government did was make vague promises of reviews and 'consideration'. It kicked the can down the road, as did subsequent governments. – Nigel Harris, 180 years of tragedy and progress, Rail, pejy 62, 2019 December 18
- “That was a big missed opportunity and I feel it’s unfair that we kicked the can down the road to the larger public,” said Dr. El Sahly, who voted “no” to the question about whether the safety data was adequate. – Christina Jewett, F.D.A. Panel Recommends R.S.V. Vaccine to Protect Young Infants, The New York Times, 18 Mey 2023
- Normally, a seven-week continuing resolution would be standard practice for Congress, which excels at kicking the can down the road and often makes hard, longer-term decisions only when threatened with missing its vacation time – which is why it set the new pre-Thanksgiving deadline. – Cameron Joseph, Why a government shutdown looms as Congress splits town, https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0920/congress-democrats-government-shutdown, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Septambra 2025
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