Sentence examples for delayed attempt from inspiring English sources

However, when reared at 19°C, 5 and 10% of males and females, respectively, which are developmentally delayed, attempt to survive until adulthood.

It has also delayed attempts by the bank to resume dividend payments.

It has resisted efforts to allow child refugees to be reunited with families in the UK, and delayed attempts to give shelter to the most vulnerable children travelling alone.

The Royal Navy attempted to dispute this control, but Admiral Thomas Graves was defeated in the key Battle of the Chesapeake on September 5. American and French armies that had massed outside New York City began moving south late in August, and arrived near Yorktown in mid-September; deceptions about their movement successfully delayed attempts by Clinton to send more troops to Cornwallis.

As the government moved to smooth the passage of the bill by delaying attempts to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples, Hammond said there was no huge demand for same-sex marriage.

But if it reduces the pressure from multinationals and local firms for simpler laws, better courts and less political corruption, it may delay attempts to establish legal systems that work not just for businesses but for everyone else too.

Fertility advice given to women seeking pregnancy following surgery at this department included instruction not to delay attempting conception.

But hostile opinion in the British medical profession delayed their attempt.

The war delayed initial attempts at implementation but the subsequent slow acceptance of the approach meant that large-scale field trials did not begin until the 1960s.

The treasurer, Joe Hockey, who spoke to Xenophon last week and persuaded him to delay his attempt to launch an inquiry, said the Xenophon-initiated probe "was going to turn into some kind of star chamber by [Labor senator] Sam Dastyari".

(In one of history's little ironies, the day the Israelis launched their attack, Blair was in the West Bank trying to persuade the Palestinians to delay their attempt to obtain national recognition from the United Nations).