Sentence examples for delay a declaration from inspiring English sources

Cook declined to enforce the follow-on on day three despite a 180-run first innings lead over a side they had skittled out for 68 and 174 in their two previous innings, and then chose to delay a declaration until New Zealand required 468 - 50 runs more than the highest successful run chase in Test history.

The EU statement, designed to compensate the Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat, for delaying a declaration of statehood beyond May 4 - the day the five-year Oslo 'land for peace' accords expire - was denounced by Mr Netanyahu even before it had been approved.

England, who with their team selection took the number of players used during the series to 29 (Australian, in contrast, used 12), escaped with a rain-affected draw after Border, ruthless to the end, had delayed a declaration on the final day.

Mr. Enzi said in an interview this month that he was planning on running again but that he wanted to delay any declaration until closer to the election.

But he has delayed an announcement as North Korea warned that it would consider such a move a "declaration of war".

The decision on Wednesday by OPEC to delay a production cut unless other major exporters did the same amounted to the declaration of a price war, analysts said.

Some European and Islamic nations have encouraged Mr. Arafat to delay his declaration of a state and concentrate on a peace settlement with Israel.

Last-minute U.S. diplomatic efforts to create an international trusteeship for Palestine failed, as did pressure on the Jewish leadership to delay the declaration of a Jewish state.

In addition, large numbers of absentee ballots can delay the declaration of a winner on election night, while early voters may be deprived of important last-minute campaign information.

If there were concerns among onlookers that England might linger over their second innings and delay their declaration too long, they were soon allayed by a scoring rate that rattled along at more than five an over.

They tried to delay the declaration of the results by making endless complaints about process and then orchestrated an attack on the airport in Tripoli.