Sentence examples for making a delay from inspiring English sources

Even a government that put more emphasis on efficiency than on equity could be in favour of some positive level of redistribution with an aim to making a delay in the legal retirement age easier.

The EC is trying to make a delay look like a scientific issue".

So it is possible, if not likely, that the general price level will fall, or at least not rise so much as to make a delay in investing look unwise.

One top GOP aide said putting that provision into the next draft of a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government was not "at all likely," in part because the party has already decided to make a delay to the mandate a part of their proposal for lifting the debt ceiling in mid-October.

Insert, wherever you need your program to make a delay: sleep(1000); Change the "1000" to the number of milliseconds you want to wait (for example, if you want to make a 2 second delay, replace it with "2000". Tip: On some systems the value might refer to seconds, instead of milliseconds. So sometimes 1000 isn't one second, but, in fact, 1000 seconds.

They are welcoming, generous spaces that would make a delayed appointment seem far more tolerable.

Leonte, who is six feet one, two hundred and five pounds, and still rangy, made a delayed entrance to the party, accompanied by the song "I Made It".

Nor would you demand that the windshield wipers make a delayed pass after the wash cycle is over, to pick up stray droplets.

A thick, glistening wave made a delayed appearance, but I got to the bar before it did, and hurled myself with an involuntary cry through its harmless, shiny, icy crest.

Children in Gaza made a delayed return to school on Sunday after the 50-day war with Israel that killed more than 2,100 Palestinians and damaged hundreds of school buildings.

The god, in this case, is Eros, who makes a delayed but galvanizing (and hilarious) appearance at the beginning of the second act of Rob Ashford's revival of "Promises, Promises," the 1968 musical about the dangers of interoffice bed hopping.