Sentence examples for delaying operation from inspiring English sources

Plan Tortue was a delaying operation aimed at the enemy forces that would potentially reinforce Axis forces at Normandy.

Only three unexploded bombs on the runway and taxiway are delaying operations.

And obviously the hope is that patients will not be damaged, but even delaying operations is not great".

As well as management failings over C. diff, the joint report had also pinpointed financial problems, with managers avoiding overspend by delaying operations and letting waiting lists increase.

Big financial problems with the health board managing to avoid overspending sometimes only by delaying operations and letting waiting lists get longer.

He warned that a freeze in funding would grow increasingly difficult to manage over time, as the department would run out of options for delaying operations and would be prohibited from entering into any new contracts with vendors.

This term was used to describe any immediate or delayed operation that involved a change of classification category, e.g. conversion from a breast-conserving procedure to mastectomy or from mastectomy to defect repair with flap techniques in local radical excision.

Thick ice delayed operations in the spring.

Shell began drilling in Alaskan Arctic waters over the summer, though equipment problems and thick ice delayed operations.

Last winter, the Government suffered a series of headlines about delayed operations, A&E waiting times and ambulance delays – all based on the weekly figures.

Pakistani officials said that the authorities had planned an operation to flush militants from the remaining pockets of Mohmand, but delayed operations because of a lack of resources.