Sentence examples for the slightest delay from inspiring English sources

The Governor-General immediately asked for reinforcements from France and these were granted without the slightest delay.

The slightest delay at launch can switch the ascent schedule can mean the three men will be stuck in the cramped capsule for two full days.

The slightest delay in preserving the tissue seriously skews in vitro research results, which tells you how well this method would work in maintaining details of the original's personality.

They also fired bullets into the air at the slightest delay in traffic, an aggression unlikely to endear them in an area that, although calm, was noticeably less welcoming.

This leads to a little bit of trouble because these are the instant-death, no-second-chance games that reward extremely precise controls and punish the slightest delay, and it's difficult to say when it's you and when it's the controller that made you die (kind of like the original).

Add the element of social media -- where customers can instantly broadcast even the slightest delay or misstep -- and it becomes understandable the circumstances that have spawned a perpetual culture of urgency inside many office environments.

People turn out to be sensitive to the slightest delays.

About 4m lorries cross the Channel between Dover and Calais each year, and hauliers have warned that the slightest delays will result in huge queues.

None of this was a result of anything extraordinary, just a few minor storms hovering near the New York region and a volume of flights that meant even the slightest delays quickly became big delays.

But the slight delay did not bother him.

And no serious financial loss would have been incurred by the slight delay involved.