Sentence examples for may delay efforts from inspiring English sources

Mr. Jones said that government-aided efforts to revive downtown Manhattan in the wake of the attack of Sept. 11 may delay efforts to develop a commercial core in Long Island City, despite favorable zoning changes intended to encourage high-rise development.

To help with appropriability, the pioneer of a core technology can try to seek complementary patents on new features and/or processes and, in some cases, on designs, but these activities may delay efforts at licensing or commercialization.

The investigation may delay Schering-Plough's efforts to introduce a nonprescription Claritin, which had $3.2 billion in sales last year, in the United States.

By Wednesday evening, Sky News was reporting that "disagreements over leaks to the media may delay British police in their efforts to scour areas they will be given access to".

In his comments on Friday, Mr. Saleh referred to the mediation efforts, saying, "I regret that this event may delay a process that could have saved lives".

Serological testing requires a major logistic effort with transport of samples to a central laboratory that may delay reporting and use of test results.

"They may delay my month's wages.

But economic pressures may delay those aims.

We may delay parts of it.

Referral requirements may delay care.

Some analysts believe that buildup, along with military exercises and reconnaissance that were seen from the Soviet perspective as provocative, may have strengthened Soviet hawks and actually delayed efforts by Mr. Gorbachev to bring reform to the Soviet Union.