Sentence examples for delay in dispatching from inspiring English sources

City officials have acknowledged that there was a four-minute delay in dispatching an emergency vehicle to the accident site at Amsterdam Avenue and 97th Street.

And in the case of the girl's death, the Fire Department said there had been a four-minute delay in dispatching the ambulance, and blamed human error.

Your member pack should have been sent out to the address you registered with so, presumably, it got lost in the post or delayed in dispatch.

On one occasion, a delay in the dispatch of the monthly cheque elicited an unforgiving response: "WHERE'S THE FUCKING STIPEND?

They did this first by sowing confusion about what kinds of interrogation techniques would be permitted, then by failing to plan for the intensity of the post-invasion insurgency, and finally by delaying for months in dispatching reinforcements to help the American guards at Abu Ghraib contend with the swelling number of prisoners.

Mr. Long, the Fire Department spokesman, suggested that the dispatch system was not to blame for the delay in the fatal fire.

There can also sometimes be a significant delay, in driven coursing, before the picker-up reaches the hare and dispatches it (if it is not already dead).

A controversial plan to delay the dispatch of ambulances in some urgent medical cases is to be put on hold after a backlash against the "highly dangerous" proposals.

A York County prosecutor, Thomas H. Kelley, told The York Dispatch that Mr. Robertson's lawyer asked the prosecutor's office last week for a delay in the arrest until after the primary -- as happened.

Long delay in implementation.

Never delay in enemy territory.