Sentence examples similar to precipitating a delay from inspiring English sources

And earlier this month, when the administration precipitated a delay in funding for the Census Bureau, Congress acquiesced.

The project was dealt a further blow when Mr. Douglas announced his cancer diagnosis, precipitating a yearlong delay and raising questions about whether it would proceed at all.

The zoo reopened in June after a 4bn CFA franc (£5.1m) renovation and a delay because of the crisis last year, when Tuareg separatists and hardline Islamists took over the north, precipitating a coup by disgruntled Malian officers in the capital.

"Mugabe is deliberately precipitating a constitutional crisis".

But they accidentally overshot the mark, precipitating a regional crisis.

"He seems intent on precipitating a constitutional crisis".

That could be dangerous; fears of endless delay could precipitate a bank run: Portugal has huge private-sector debt, much of it raised abroad and funnelled through its banks.

It is now known that severe hypoxia-ischemia may not necessarily cause immediate cell death, but can precipitate a complex biochemical cascade leading to the delayed neuronal loss.

McNamara's replacement could be a known dove or known hawk, as that would precipitate a dreadful row in the Senate which might deny confirmation or cause a long delay.

That could precipitate a crisis.

Postmodern theory precipitated a crisis.