Sentence examples for were to delay from inspiring English sources

He defended his decision to his father in terms that were themselves a rebuke to Anglican worldliness: "I cannot fight against God Who calls me to His Church: if I were to delay and die in the meantime I shd.

The regulator has been investigating how much executives knew about manufacturing problems that were to delay the delivery of the A380 superjumbo before they sold shares or exercised stock options.

If Osborne were to delay his cuts to tax credits by just two years, it would enable two years of wage growth from the national living wage, raising the incomes of families who will then be better placed, and better prepared, to withstand these cuts.

At other times, he amiably, coaxingly suggested that if the student were to delay a limiting phrase until later in the sentence, or replace a literal rendering with an analogous colloquialism in English, or transpose a prepositional phrase into an appositive noun phrase, then English might be able to reproduce the meaning of the Czech original with a little more elegance.

This means that there would be no benefit in terms of quality, if, as some suggest, we were to delay the production of the preliminary estimate.

The goals of the program were to delay the occurrence of sexual activity, promote a positive attitude towards abstinence in adolescence, and facilitate communication on sexual topics with adults.

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.

If it won't go away, the second reaction is to delay.