Sentence examples for delayed membership from inspiring English sources

He was the driving force behind the many reforms that persuaded European Union leaders to open long delayed membership talks with Turkey in 2005.

Perhaps Andrew Bartlett, author of the analysis " Nuclear Warfare in the Movies" put it best: "All these victims accept with some dignity – but with what we might also feel is troubling resignation, if not baffling passivity – their status as an extended-life remnant awaiting only a slightly delayed membership among the extinct".

It is expected to include a "safeguard clause" in the accession treaty, allowing for delayed entry if membership conditions are not fulfilled.Bucharest's crane-filled skyline and mushrooming shopping malls reflect heady economic times.

This issue delayed Hutchinson's membership to the Boston church by a week, until a pastoral examination determined that she was sufficiently orthodox to join the church.

The party's liberalising political reforms, which persuaded EU leaders to begin long-delayed membership talks with Turkey in 2005, played a part in the victory.

During its first term AK enacted a raft of radical reforms that persuaded EU leaders to open long-delayed membership talks.

Whatever the outcome, Turkey's prospects of being the EU's first mainly Muslim member have never seemed so bleak.Turkey's long-delayed membership talks opened almost 15 months ago amid much fanfare.

If EU membership were delayed, joining NATO would be impossible.

A vote by the full membership was delayed by Hurricane Sandy.

Vietnam, whose foreign minister did not attend the ASEAN meeting on July 10th that agreed to delay Cambodia's membership, later expressed regret at the decision.

But further delaying China's membership would strain relations with countries that are eager to benefit from the trade concessions that China would make as a member, and it would infuriate Taiwan, whose membership in the group is being held up until China joins.