Citations:slow roll

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English citations of slow roll and slow-roll

Verb: "to delay, obstruct, to slow-walk"[edit]

  • 2011 April 19, Jonathan Strong, “Faced with Obama ‘slow walking’ document requests, GOP aims at outside groups”, in dailycaller.com[1]:
    “There is a coordinated effort, I assume being led by the White House, to, I would describe it as slow walking or slow rolling these things,” says an investigator on the Energy and Commerce Committee, []
  • 2016 August 17, Nahal Toosi, “Trump makes intel community queasy”, in POLITICO[2]:
    “The civil servants will trudge on. They know how to slow-roll people whose ideas they deem unworkable,” added a former National Security Council official.
  • 2022 October 12, Danielle Pletka, “Biden’s Soft Underbelly on Ukraine”, in Foreign Policy[3]:
    President Donald Trump also slow-rolled aid for nearly two months hoping to press Zelensky for dirt on the Biden family.
  • 2022 November 7, John Sakellariadis, “The top cyber threats facing the midterms”, in POLITICO[4]:
    A pair of House Republicans is criticizing the White House — again — for slow rolling the development of an economy-wide cyber doomsday plan that is due at year’s end.
  • 2022 November 10, Kari Lake, quotee, “Kari Lake to Newsmax: Arizona ‘Slow Rolling the Results’ to ‘Delay Inevitable’”, in Newsmax[5]:
    Arizona elections officials are “slow rolling the results” to “delay the inevitable” outcome of the race, Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake told Newsmax on Thursday.