waiting game

So life has become a daily waiting game for war.

Crews on the merchant ships will be going crazy from the endless waiting game.

They decided that he plays a good waiting game.

He emphasized, as did others, that for now a tense waiting game was underway, with most investors watching from the sidelines.

They're probably engaged in a futile waiting game anyway.

He didn't have to get involved in an uncertain waiting game, at least not any longer.

Meanwhile, in 2010 American families were subjected to an unnecessary waiting game about the future of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.

No, I think we have to play a careful waiting game.

He first expressed his anger with the passive-aggressive waiting game before the match.

The Enterprise is also playing the silent waiting game in hope of regaining contact.