Sentence examples for instead delay from inspiring English sources

Because they cross so little water before they reach the waves, they create no troublesome chop, and because they strike the waves from the front they don't force the waves to topple prematurely and haphazardly, the way onshores do, but instead delay their breaking, letting the power of a wave rise, gather, and concentrate in the crest before it can overcome the wind's resistance.

She had initially planned to rule in July, but instead delayed her decision while encouraging both sides to settle instead.

Instead, delays and excuses are considered more polite.

Instead, delays mean that the remaining stockpile will have to be shipped very shortly if the 30 June deadline for the chemicals' destruction is to have any chance of being met.

But the suit says that despite the importunate circumstances that necessitated PwC's help, the auditors instead delayed, as the firm hunkered down in "numerous internal consultations" over what to do, the suit says.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will not be voting on net neutrality in December, instead delaying the decision until sometime in 2015 when Republicans will have full control of Congress.

The Duke report authors recommend instead delaying action on China's request for market economy status until China's economic behavior is demonstrably consistent with market principles.

However, NBC eventually opted not to put the show on the fall schedule, and instead delayed the premiere of the third season until the beginning of 2011.

This, together with the fact that steady state rRNA levels were normal, indicates that overall rRNA production occurs at a normal rate in BCS cells, and that processing of 18S rRNA is instead delayed.

In contrast to colon carcinoma cells, HUWE1 is not required for proliferation of embryonic stem (ES) cells and deletion of HUWE1 instead delays the decrease of N-MYC levels that occurs upon removal of leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) from the medium (Zhao et al, 2008).

Significantly, the H2.a daughter did not divide several hours before the L2 division, as is normal, but instead delayed the timing of its division to coincide with that of other seam daughters at L2, suggesting a complete conversion of developmental fate to that of the posterior daughter.