Sentence examples for delayed acting from inspiring English sources

In a qualitative study, we might view 'recall bias' through a different lens as the 'benefit of hindsight' and consider people's reflections on how they made sense of their symptoms and why they acted, or delayed acting.

(Inger, 56) Even when interpreting her lump as potential cancer, Inger delayed acting on it as she waited for the screening programme to act.

Still, for about a month, Lincoln delayed acting.

These officials dismissed Dr. Postol's accusation that they had delayed acting on his accusations.

A senior official said the administration had delayed acting for fear of harming the F.B.I. investigation of the charity.

For years, as Exxon and others in the industry conducted a concerted lobbying effort against the legislation, Congress delayed acting on it.

Judge Smith's defenders accuse Senate Democrats of wanting to reject, or delay acting on, all of President Bush's nominees.

If state officials delay acting on the trust fund until after the election, he warned, they must find an alternative, possibly an interim bond issue.

It could, for example, withhold F-16 jets that Iraq has ordered but not yet received, and it could delay acting on promises to help spur foreign investment.

Each year we delay acting, the more vulnerable our economies become to potentially catastrophic climate change impacts and the more costly it becomes to transform our global energy system.

He added: "There is clearly a very real possibility that the Bank of England will delay acting until early 2016".