Little else would have made me even think of delaying.

Your best course would be to fight a delaying action.

We'd been playing her delaying game for more than an hour.

And got married to the man she loved without delaying.

Knowing there was no sense in delaying, he set to work at once.

The engineer decided to try a delaying action- playing along with him.

I'll have to take your delaying tactic as a no.

A battle over powers will only have a delaying effect.

Now, can we cut out the delaying tactics and get on with it?

Can you confirm that it will not have a delaying effect?

Today's financial crisis is the result of yesterday's delaying actions.

For a time, the play seems like a delaying mechanism to avoid telling the story.

But their delaying strategy tied down German forces for a month.

At best they were engaged in a delaying action that was certain to spell their end.

But your delaying tactics will have limited effect on me, Captain!

I would also like to say, quite clearly, that we are opposed to any delaying tactics.

And because we are the first, we must fight a delaying action.

But he would fight a delaying action for as long as might be.

Now, her delaying tactics were putting them well behind in their journey.

All the champion could do was fight a futile delaying action.

Maybe after 10 days, they will delay for a month and then keep delaying."

It was a delaying action, Regis knew, not a victory.

Your delaying action was vital for our one small victory in this battle at sea.

Its delaying tactic would buy time for the deployment of additional forces.

But a delay of some weeks is possible, officials say.

So we are going to have to make the most of the delay.

The delay would give him more time to think through the problem.

They came at last, after what seemed a long delay.

We never thought to ask them what the delay was.

The second reason for his delay was a personal one.

But if I was not wrong, something had to be done, and without delay.

Delay is not likely to be kind to the deal.

A long delay can mean anything and, at my age, I need to know.

I believe he will be able to act without delay.

No action on a delay has been taken at present.

Not a moment was lost in delay of any kind.

He had to do something to take his mind off the delay.

The delay could be set from a matter of minutes to hours.

He had to know how long the delay was going to be.

So we're looking at a delay of more than three months.

In most cases the delay will be less than two weeks.

I think part of the problem is the time delay.

At certain times, the delay was up to 50 minutes.

And even the cost of delay was high, after too long.

I'd have to go back and ask her about the delay.

The thing to do was play the part without delay.

There could be another delay for Americans in coming months.

Some children said they were not too happy about the delay.

This means at least a 24-hour delay before results are known.

His mind was made up and he could delay no longer.

The time had come when she could delay no longer.

No use trying to delay what must now be done.

He would say anything now to delay her even a moment.

I had to come up with some reason to delay.

The program has already been delayed six months for the same reason.

So the deal has been delayed for at least a day.

But how many times had I delayed and lost something?

Then the start of the second period was delayed for 15 minutes.

Our best hope now is that we can delay the process.

Now the job will be delayed 10 years or more.

If development is delayed, does the team have a point of no return?

The game was delayed 65 minutes, until other officials could be found.

The fire delayed service on the line for 45 minutes.

Some of her physical development seems to have been delayed.

Let us not delay, especially as this is no recent matter.

But they could not long have delayed her going home.

Actually, the king asked me to delay that for a while.

For the rest of the way there was little to delay us.

Yet I could not delay such a step too long.

If they do, that will delay them for a long.

If they did that, then he might actually delay them.

Then something may have happened at home and I would be delayed.

You cannot delay when there is war in the land.

There was never a reason to delay getting bad news.