Sentence examples for delay or prolong from inspiring English sources

The law defines frivolous as litigation that is "completely without merit in law or fact" or that "is undertaken primarily to delay or prolong the resolution of the litigation, or to harass or maliciously injure another".

There is the risk that all these techniques may delay or prolong what could otherwise have been a quick, simple, and safe procedure, and they may render the procedure much more expensive.

On the other hand, the number of false-positive results has to be minimised, and the system performance should be as fast as possible in order not to markedly delay or prolong the reporting.

Peak IR and Akt phosphorylation levels induced by insulin glargine were generally comparable with those achieved with human insulin, although in some tissues the effects of insulin glargine were delayed and (or) prolonged in time.

There were no apparent effects of variable post mortem delay or prolonged fixation upon the quality or quantity of NCI immunostaining, with cases that had been stored in formalin for up to 20 years before new blocks had been taken for processing into wax sections still showing robust immunostaining for DPR, as did cases where post mortem delay periods had exceeded 4 days.

Immediate-release (IR) dosage forms are designed to allow drugs to dissolve freely in the gastrointestinal contents, with no intention of delaying or prolonging the dissolution/absorption of the drugs upon administration.

Other risk factors that have been suggested include delayed or prolonged neutropenia [ 46], and pneumonia [ 48].

The lack of a sensible and specific marker of infection may be responsible for delaying or prolonging antibiotic use [ 1].

Other risk factors that have been suggested include delayed or prolonged neutropenia [ 10] and invasive pulmonary aspergillosis [ 14].

In contrast, olive oil, canola oil and sesame oil have altered PGE2 signaling patterns (delaying or prolonging signaling, Figure 5), but have less effects on inhibition of PGE2-mediated calcium signaling.

Notably, a number of studies on replication timing have revealed that replication along FRA7H, FRA16D, FRA1H, and FRA2G starts correctly but then becomes delayed or prolonged, and aphidicolin exposure leads to a further slowdown of fork progression, so that fragile sites enter G2 phase unreplicated with very high frequency [ 17, 19– 22].