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It looks like the business is still retaining unacceptable risks and the AML committee is going along after some initial hemming and hawing.

It was poking light fun at all the media hemming and hawing that goes into terminology like this.

The amount of hemming and hawing in this makes me think that he's not really buying it this time.

After much hemming and hawing, and research proposals, and industry comparisons, the ultimate solution that was decided upon was...

Then pad out the rest with some hemming and hawing about: Has Linus gone TOO FAR!?

I think she meant that a lot of hemming and hawing in the conversation is really maddening to someone who can feel something negative is coming.

They're still hemming and hawing about fixing it--and that's only after finally admitting they goofed.

Instead of hemming and hawing about the right solution, write all three.

If a religion said black people were cursed and had no souls, there wouldn't be so much hemming and hawing over whether or not they were racist.

If we actually do it, instead of hemming and hawing about it.

But my impression is that the Greek are hemming and hawing, and doing their best to avoid any structural reforms that would prevent such a crisis from happening again.

This one is old, but knowing the patterns of changing code gives us more confidence in knowing what is right, rather than hemming and hawing over what is readable and maintainable.

Hemming and hawing and "How could they!"-ing not only accomplishes nothing in the great majority of cases, it turns people off of whatever valuable input you might have.

I think most people who say that "abortion is murder" are actually speaking hyperbolically; if you ask them "so does that mean that every woman who has had an abortion ought to be doing twenty-to-life for infanticide?" most will start hemming and hawing.

I asked "What time do my peers go home at this company?", and after some hemming and hawing the bosses told me "About nineish, usually." (9 to 9 x 5 = 60 hours, plus a 10 hour fudge factor because I did not fall off the turnip truck yesterday and know what "usually" means.) So I told them "There is a gap between what you expect as normal hours and what I expect as normal hours.

" (who was then Google's Director of Search Quality - today he is Director of Research) and after some hemming and hawing he told me " well, we don't have anyone like that but then we are a media company, not a search company.("We are a media company" was the mantra Terry Semel was repeating at Yahoo then) and I knew then that Yahoo would never beat Google (in search).