But the team's persistence simply delayed its decline by a year.

You could simply delay the meeting for a few nights.

We need to save Medicare, not simply delay its bankruptcy.

The court has simply delayed enforcement of the ban for about a week until the next hearing.

Some of the capital budget cuts would simply delay projects not scheduled to start for several years.

But experts said that would simply delay the inevitable collapse.

So if a strike takes place, the studios would simply delay new productions.

Brown is simply delaying paying the Visa bill until after the election.

Are our troops helping create a nation, or simply delaying an inevitable civil war?

In fact, sometimes postponing a film simply delays the inevitable.