Sentence examples for needless delay from inspiring English sources

That's needless delay, and the president should call lawmakers on it.

OTHERS on the plane saw a needless delay piled on top of the hours already spent waiting.

Reaching for a laser device which illustrates whether a flagstick is 128 or 182 yards away thereby makes no difference, other than to add needless delay.

This would be a needless delay: Mr Gbagbo has already failed ample tests of his good faith.But sanctions may not persuade Mr Gbagbo and his enemies to keep their words.

After more than a year and a half of needless delay, the men who run the chamber allowed the domestic violence measure that had sailed through the Senate to come to a vote on Thursday.

This "use it or lose it" mandate is critical for many states, including New York, that have plenty of worthy projects on the drawing board that should not be held up by bureaucracy or needless delay.

Jim Spellane, a spokesman for the electrical workers' union, denied that the unions were seeking to cause needless delays.

Republicans in Congress said Mr. Obama's action could lead to needless delays in projects financed by the stimulus package.

"Our approach needs to be based more on consistent standards that provide greater certainty and cut needless delays," he said at the time.

The Senate bill also imposes needless delays on the enactment of the so-called Volcker rule, which would bar banks from making risky market trades for their own accounts and from owning hedge funds and private equity funds.

The government's insistence that Petrobras be the sole sub-salt operator, make up at least 30% of any consortium, and source most goods and services within Brazil has led to predictions of inflated costs and needless delays.