Sentence examples for occasion delayed from inspiring English sources

And Mark Jackson, a former Knicks draft pick, made his first Garden appearance as a head coach — an occasion delayed one year by the 2011 lockout, which prevented the Warriors from visiting last season.

In recent months the College Board, a New York-based consortium of academic institutions which oversees the SAT, has on several occasions delayed the release of the results of exams sat by students from China, pending investigations of cheating by an unknown number of them.

On two previous occasions, judges delayed the proceedings, citing the absence of Ms. Shourd.

On two previous occasions, judges have delayed a verdict in the case, citing the absence of a third American, Sarah E. Shourd, 32, who was released on bail last September for medical reasons and returned to the United States.

On this occasion he had been delayed.

We'd stayed up for the milk tanker's final pick-up and he was on tenterhooks, waiting to offer the driver coffee to mark the occasion – the tanker was delayed and at 2am we'd given up and gone to bed.

"Making an occasion out of a delayed announcement is an attempt to con the people into believing that we have moved a step towards independence when we haven't".

Reductions in drinks per drinking occasion occurred for the delayed and assessment-only conditions but not in the immediate condition.

Visits were delayed; on occasions, inspectors threatened; material was moved; special sites, shut to the inspectors, were unilaterally designated by Iraq.

The prime minister has at times cited the duties of his office and a busy schedule as reasons he could not appear in court on important occasions, a complication that delayed proceedings.

On this occasion, however, the start was delayed as Greenwood's on-stage laptop refused to function.