Sentence examples for delay passage from inspiring English sources
No defendants in pending courts-martial are facing a possible death penalty, Dwight Sullivan said, but that is no reason to delay passage of the legislation.
There is widespread speculation that the Democratic-controlled Congress will delay passage of the budget bills in hopes that the next president will be a Democrat and more amenable to its priorities.
For their part, Republicans said they had to use unorthodox methods to get spending bills passed because Democrats had been stalling, attaching amendment after amendment to spending bills to delay passage.
Today's expected decision by Senator James M. Jeffords of Vermont to leave the Republican Party, giving the Democrats a majority in the Senate, might further delay passage of the legislation, staff members said.
Shinkai Karokhail, a member of Parliament who was one of the leaders of the effort to pass that law, said Ms. Yazdanparast's contribution was to delay passage by six months.
Today, the new majority leader, Tom Daschle of South Dakota, held out the possibility that Democrats might delay passage of a final House-Senate education bill, one of Mr. Bush's signature campaign issues, if the president does not commit to spending more money.
The stalemate delayed passage of the bill, costing the city an estimated $60 million.
Others say that he took too much credit, and that he delayed passage of the legislation.
Violent protests had delayed passage of its FTA with Chile for over a year.
Senate Democrats are equally adamant on striking those provisions, effectively delaying passage of any legislation in the Senate this week.
She warned that "immediately … all schools will begin teaching homosexuality" if they delayed passage of the amendment.
