Sentence examples for delay matters from inspiring English sources

It might still delay matters.

Even a perfectly executed American attack would delay matters only a few years.

This was a "bureaucratic" answer that would delay matters, he said.

It is hoped work will be complete by 2018, but austerity measures now being imposed on the country could delay matters.

10.23am GMT The fog/cloud doesn't delay matters for long, and Katrin Mueller of Switzerland has a terrible start, practically stopping and immediately ruling herself out of contention.

So it's a pity that in trying to Newter him, Dubose and Reid fail to convey adequately how or why DeLay matters.

Not that the delay mattered much in the scheme of things — no one in my immediate family had set foot in Goleen in more than a hundred years.

It took a bit too long for the food to appear on one busy Saturday night, but the server was so apologetic and the windows opening onto the street so pleasant that the delay mattered less than it might have.

He said: "The police investigation is delaying matters, not the plea bargain".

The company insists that three months is a perfectly usual timescale for establishing liability, but admits "we have delayed matters unnecessarily".

If the reply is aimed at delaying matters, as we believe, then we will not accept it," the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, said during a joint news conference in Paris with his new German counterpart, Guido Westerwelle.