That delay could help push up share prices even more.

The delay may even have helped the film's commercial potential.

"We'll give them another fifteen minutes or so," he suggested, knowing that every delay would help a little.

Still, delay helps the company more than the government.

The modern equipment has since been bought but the delay did not help the hospital's reputation.

Where information and cooperation was called for, we received delay or an outright refusal to help.

On the other hand, every moment's delay helped their chances to escape in the confusion of the fighting.

That delay helped send the euro down 3.7 percent against the dollar this week.

"With all that is going on in the region, this delay is not helping their interests."

This leads me back to the point I made in my introduction: delay will not help the ratification process.