Sentence examples for a tardy response from inspiring English sources
"It was initially a tardy response, then an uncoordinated one," Mr. Creel said.
Many parents considered this a tardy response that was a stinging reminder of Xinjian's low standing.
She has already submitted an appeal to the government's planning inspectorate to consider it afresh, based on what she said was a tardy response to her scheme.
Several lawmakers have criticized the administration for what they describe as a tardy response to the listeria outbreak, first detected this summer, and for not adopting new safety standards beforehand.
Erasmus' rather reluctant decision to confront Luther was a tardy response to the urging of many Catholic friends and patrons (including popes and kings), all of whom had been warning him that it was his duty to oppose Luther's heresies if he wanted to preserve his own reputation as a Catholic theologian.
As it transpired on a wickedly wet night, Northern Ireland came away from the Estadio do Dragao with a point, denied by Helder Postiga's tardy response but pride had been restored following a disappointing 1-1 drat at home to Luxembourg in September.
Other issues played a part: the government's new workplace laws, its tardy response on climate change and a popular new Labor leader, Kevin Rudd.However, a poll in December on the Hicks case itself rocked the government.
After a tardy initial response by the police, those images were soon supplanted by such visions as Boris Johnson, the conservative mayor of London — an old Etonian and alumnus of Oxford University — carrying a green brush to help citizens clean up the streets, or at least to be filmed brandishing his new-broom trophy a year before he faced re-election.
It is good news for us, then, that Turkish coffee culture has now pitched up right in the centre of London: a few weeks ago, Kahve Dünyası ("The Coffee World"), our tardy response to the Starbucks model, opened in Piccadilly Circus.
Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said this left "police chiefs in an invidious position because of the Government's grudging and tardy response to the European Court of Human Rights.
It had just dealt with a major earthquake, too, prompting yet more unflattering comparisons with the Bush administration's tardy response to Hurricane Katrina.
