Sentence examples for serve to delay from inspiring English sources

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But utilities that burn coal will receive tens of billions of dollars worth of free pollution credits, savings that will be passed on to consumers but may serve to delay the closing of some coal plants.

"Decisions to build the 2012 budget with any 2011 surplus would jeopardize that strong position, and only serve to delay needed decisions by another year," John Nixon, the state's budget director, said in a statement.

Statistics for the cases considered show that the overall effects of turbulence and molecular transport can serve to delay or accelerate autoignition depending upon where ignition starts, the presence of 2-stage or single-stage ignition and the variations in ignition delay times in mixture fraction space.

(Both pusher propellers and canard surfaces were used on the Wright Flyer; these have now come back into vogue on a number of aircraft. Canards are forward control surfaces and serve to delay the onset of the stall. Some aircraft also have forward wings, which provide lift and delay the stall, but these are not control surfaces and hence not canards).

Parallel biological studies of sturgeon in the fishway revealed that turning pools were the location with the highest rate of failed passage, apparently associated with large vortices in the centre of the turning pools which serve to delay or inhibit passage.

However, with increasing pressure there is a shift toward single-stage low-temperature-dominated ignition which serves to delay ignition.

She said that this did not mean Dewani could never be sent back, but: "It serves to delay extradition until such time as the person has recovered".

They are also deeply aware that the stimulus has served to delay the most urgent economic challenge of all: a structural shift in the Chinese economy.

But the Senate, ever arrogant, has clung to an antique, cumbersome paper method that serves to delay final disclosure of donors, often until after Election Day.

Nonetheless, other issues, including Yeltsin's illness and disagreements over the Crimea, served to delay the signing of the treaty indefinitely.