Sentence examples for was to delay from inspiring English sources

The effect was to delay until October the drive toward Moscow.

Our only solution was to delay her entrance into the resort and fly a specialist in from Australia.

The only thing some people tried was to delay them from getting to the bridge, forming a human shield.

The Southerners' plan was to delay a vote, in the hope that violent protests would lead to a white backlash.

Unless, that is, the main effect of cheap emerging market labour was to delay labour-saving technical change.

Yugoslav resistance collapsed quickly, but the effect was to delay for another month the planned invasion of the Soviet Union.

Their only goal is to delay action.

So the Republican plan is to delay and disrupt reform.

Instead, its principal effect is to delay ovulation.

"To delay his punishment is to delay justice," Mr. Perry told reporters at the time.

"The goal should be to delay the age at which a kid first has a soda".