Sentence examples for if tardy from inspiring English sources

The proposed pact represents a necessary if tardy admission: that the euro was an irrevocable step toward the political and particularly fiscal integration that alone can sustain the currency.

The second part of Peter Jackson's Tolkien epic has now raked in more than $400m£249m9m) outside the US, with a record-breaking (if tardy) opening weekend in Italy last week, according to Variety.

The McCain campaign is hoping that such showy, if tardy, departures from Bush-Cheney doctrine will constitute a galaxy of Sister Souljah moments, each with headlines reading "McCain Breaks With Bush on... .. and the usual knee-jerk press references to Mr. McCain as a "maverick".

Some new regs are sensible if tardy.

The company is pinning big hopes on the XPS One, its smart (if tardy) answer to the elegant iMac desktop.

Another welcome if tardy addition: Twitter has added support for stronger two-factor authentication as Twitter users will now be able to use a USB security key (using the U2F open authentication standard) for login verification when signing into Twitter.

"They will close the doors right in your face / Then you're in Tardy, chin up buddy" If you're late for lessons - or in this case chapel - you have to get up early for three days in a row to sign something called Tardy Book.

If a tardy schoolchild starts running down the street, everyone starts running.

The great, if very tardy, successes of the international order were the interventions in Kosovo and East Timor.

Of course, your feelings are understandable — if a bit tardy.

Thus, if A is tardy, his partner, B, can carry on alone until A arrives.