Sentence examples for approved a delay from inspiring English sources

Public opposition was so strong that on Wednesday the council approved a delay in voting on any future asset sales.

The cabinet approved a delay, through November, of 5 trillion yen $63 billionn) in public spending, most of that in tax grants for local governments and aid for universities.

For instance, in Switzerland in 1998 there was a referendum on a single issue, in which the voters approved a delay of 2 years in the female retirement age, from 62 to 64, within the public pension system (see Bütler 2002).

The Senate has approved a delay of the digital Television transition.

His visit came a day after India's cabinet approved a delayed draft law that will pave the way for foreign companies to build reactors in India, where the atomic energy market is reported to be worth $150 billion.

If the full commission approves a delay, as seems likely, that would mean that a new president will be in office before most American companies are required to obey a law that was passed overwhelmingly during the second year of President Bush's first term.

The information was contained in an order, signed by the United States Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis, that approved a 30-day delay in a hearing on Mr. Madoff's case that otherwise would have been held on Monday.

But the Japanese accident led the government to announce a 1-year moratorium on its nuclear program, and yesterday the upper house of parliament approved a measure to delay the setting up of new plants indefinitely.

On 18 May, the World Health Organization's (WHO's) top decision-making body approved a recommendation to delay destruction of the world's two known stocks of smallpox, held under tight guard in Russia and the United States.

For example, Program officials approved a year-long delay in purchasing a full set of valves for the life support system for EM-2 (the first crewed SLS-Orion flight) and delayed purchases related to the heat shield and propulsion thrusters for the mission to keep expenses within funding targets".

See articleSevere flooding in eastern Kenya has killed at least 21 people and made a further 60,000 or so homeless.Services delayedThe European Parliament approved a law, much delayed and watered down, boosting cross-border competition in services from 2010.