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Since its first flight in 2004, Wizz Air has become one of Europe's largest no-frills airlines, carrying almost 14 million passengers a year, although it has also gained a reputation for tardiness , being accused of operating the UK's least punctual service.
If one ignores 2008, when banks were forced to clean up their books as they were bailed out, the previous impairment peak was in 2003, when the victims of the dotcom bubble, such as Time Warner, at last admitted reality.Yet tardiness does not mean that goodwill impairments are meaningless.
He told off George W. Bush, the former American president, for tardiness.
Asked if he was disappointed at the tardiness of the polls, one Dinka tribesman in Juba sagely replied that he was confident they would open eventually, on "African time".The late openings will, however, further complicate an already dangerously cumbersome exercise.
For Hollywood, this would be a big step towards the internet.The colour of moneyThere are two broad reasons for Hollywood's tardiness.
And following a meeting at the Home Office on August 19th, Kent County Council leaders said that more might be moved "within days", possibly to Leeds, a big city with a large non-white population.Defending itself against the charge of tardiness , the Home Office points to measures in the Immigration and Asylum bill.
Yet indifference from those accustomed to managing the flow of information from politicians to voters failed to stop the speech, delivered after the prime minister's own address to the Strasbourg parliament, from attracting more than a million internet viewings within a week.For the British left, it was painful confirmation of its tardiness in mastering new media.
Shortly before that assault, Mr Zawahiri had issued a video demanding attacks on Americans in Libya to mark the anniversary.In the aftermath of the Benghazi tragedy, Republicans accused the administration of misrepresenting what had taken place in order to absolve itself from charges of tardiness and complacency.
Such tardiness lends strength to an alternative reading of the past 15 years: that low prices were as much a result of firms sweating their assets as of competition and ingenuity.Finally, most of the new power stations being built are gas-fired.
But if their interventions in the foreign-exchange market drive the currency down, that may boost inflation.In Brazil overheating has been aggravated by official tardiness in withdrawing the fiscal stimulus applied during the recession.
During up to 50 sessions, the irezumi master brooks no tardiness , insobriety or whingeing.Then there is the lifetime of pariah status that follows.
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The primary grammatical function of "tardiness" is as a noun , denoting the state or quality of being late. It often serves as the subject or object of a sentence, describing a habitual or characteristic state. Ludwig provides several examples showing its usage in various contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
