Sentence examples of "топтаться на месте" in Russian with translation "mark time"
Словно их жизни уже кончены, и они просто топчутся на месте.
It's like their lives are already over and they're just marking time.
Мы не должны ждать завершения реформы Организации Объединенных Наций, которая, как представляется, топчется на месте.
We need not wait for the completion of the United Nations reform effort, which seems to be marking time.
Ведь все недавно начатые проекты в Средней Азии, как с нефтью, так и с газом, «застряли на нейтралке» и топчутся на месте.
Indeed, all the recent projects it has announced with Central Asia for both oil and gas are essentially “stuck in neutral” and marking time.
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