Sentence examples for for being tardy from inspiring English sources

Being two minutes early for a meeting still elicits a sharp rebuke for being tardy.

It is a tardy rite and all the livelier for being tardy.

Will we be able to go back to returning e-mails within a half-day without apologizing for being tardy?

His excuse for being tardy is so corny it must be true: it wasn't the oven-intensity Midtown heat that slowed him, but a celebrity sighting.

The visions that were to bring him notice decades after his death complicated his daily life and brought him a reputation for being tardy and unreliable.

And if heavy New York City traffic was your excuse for being tardy, the response from Ms. Brennan was rarely a surprise: "You should have left a cushion of time".

He chides staff members if they are late--his aides stop important meetings at 7 58 A.M., for fear of being tardy for the eight-o'clock morning meeting--but encourages them to quit work early.

There are much faster ways of getting around if you're late for an appointment, but for some residents and laborers alike, being tardy is not such a bad thing.

Suspensions were common for things as minor as being tardy to class.

While her advice may be a little outdated ("A lady must accept an invitation to dance, or spend the rest of the evening sitting out all the dances"), some hints for politeness, such as never being tardy and never showing up to parties you weren't invited to, have thankfully stood the test of time.

The objective of this problem is to minimize the logistic cost for a set of customers without being tardy or exceeding the travel time and the capacity of the vehicles.