Sentence examples for holidays delaying from inspiring English sources

Although the budget does contain meat, some measures are simply sauce, such as moving three national holidays, delaying the payment of retirement gratuities to civil servants and threatening to withhold Christmas bonuses from underperforming public employees.Critics say that Mr Berlusconi and Giulio Tremonti, the finance minister, have missed an opportunity.

We had been humiliated, demonised and our holiday delayed for nothing.

He would probably have left Cardiff before last season had not a bizarre injury sustained when falling off a "banana boat" on holiday delayed a transfer, and when he fell out with manager David Jones last summer he was rescued by Coyle, who remembered the 30-year-old Scotland international as a YTS trainee who used to clean his boots at Dundee United.

Southampton have completed the signing of Burnley striker Jay Rodriguez on a four-year deal for a reported club record fee of around £7m. Saints had an offer for the 22-year-old accepted at the end of May, but the player's summer holiday delayed completion of the transfer.

There can be delays in wire transfers due to a number of factors, including holidays, delays by an intermediary bank, or other local conditions.

The Nets' final game is Wednesday; the Passover and Easter holidays will delay Casey's dismissal.

But the holidays might delay the verdict, which may or may not be good news.

"Our experience, based on the clients we see at our offices across the country, is that parents may give their marriages 'one final go' over the holidays, or delay any proceedings until the children are back at school because they don't wish to spoil the family's break," Stowe said.

When still little affected by the illness people went on holidays, and delayed or restricted disclosure.

These studies were beyond the scope of this review of the effects of closing schools during outbreaks, but they suggest that extending school holidays might delay the spread of an epidemic beginning during a break.

But while we have focussed on holding businesses responsible for the holiday delays, they also exposed our own failures, especially our procrastination.