Sentence examples for overdue decision from inspiring English sources

The Conservative cabinet minister said: "This is a long overdue decision and marks a small but significant step towards improving media portrayal of women and girls.

Details are still scarce on this one, but if true a long overdue decision, but still short of a proper, exceptional, transitional justice system.

The long overdue decision will close a reactor that has experienced an unsettling variety of minor failures and end power generation at a complex that once contained four nuclear plants.

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia deserves credit for his long overdue decision to give women the right to vote, to run in municipal elections and to be appointed as full voting members of the Majlis Al-Shura, a government advisory group.

Gavin Hayes, the director of the campaign group Let Britain Fly, said: "One of the first tests of leadership for the next prime minister, and the clearest way of demonstrating we have strong government again, is to make this long overdue decision.

"It was a long overdue decision," says Peter Tindemans, secretary-general of the European researchers' organization EuroScience, who served as ESS chair from 2000 to 2010.

The Administration announced two overdue decisions last week.

Burma's long-overdue decision to mend fences with the West was prompted by the overweening influence of its giant neighbour.

For instance, the integration of foreigners should become smoother thanks to the long-overdue decision to modify an 85-year-old law that made ancestry, not residence, the determinant of who is German.

To many, this long-overdue decision marked a vital and necessary end to a discriminatory and exclusionary policy.

Even though Brown was a long overdue legal decision, because the actual Supreme Court decision held very little enforcement concerning changing public sentiment about persons of color, it did not eliminate segregation; it merely made the doctrine of "separate but equal" no longer legal.