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The delay was blamed by author and journalist Christopher Hitchens on Chester Crocker's ' procrastination ' and on President Ronald Reagan's ' attempt to change the subject to the presence of Cuban forces in Angola ' as well as the ' flagrant bias ' in America's Namibia policy in favour of apartheid South Africa.
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At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.
Every recorded request by Thomas for a delay in a flank movement or an advance was to gain time to take care of his horses.
The long delay in opening the Second Front was now working to Russia's advantage.
The Providence Daily Post thought that there were probably good reasons for the haste in which the trial was being conducted and that the only thing gained by a delay would be calmer feelings.
South Philadelphia High's principal added that the current delay was caused by the `` pressure '' of a movie that the toneless lad was making.
Then there was a bad delay in getting Mort Lindsey's 30-piece orchestra wedged into its chairs.
After some delay Sigismund assented to the offer, with the provision that Prussia should be treated as a Polish fiefdom ; and after this arrangement had been confirmed by a treaty concluded at Kraków, Albert pledged a personal oath to Sigismund I and was invested with the duchy for himself and his heirs on 10 February 1525.
While Alexei was pondering his options, on 26 August 1716 Peter wrote to Alexei from abroad, urging him, if he desired to remain tsarevich, to join him and the army without delay.
This was the first launch delay in the Apollo program due to a technical problem.
This allows smoothing out the jitter, but the delay introduced by passage through the buffer would require echo cancellers even in local networks ; this was considered too expensive at the time.
Their research was applied on the MiG-15 and F-86 Sabre and bombers such as the B-47 Stratojet used swept wings which delay the onset of shock waves and reduce drag.
Another delay followed due to a long standards process before 28. 8 was released, only to be quickly replaced by 33. 6.
The first genetically modified food product was a tomato which was transformed to delay its ripening.
There does, however, seem to have been a delay between the Athenian arrival at Marathon, and the battle ; Herodotus, who evidently believed that Miltiades was eager to attack, may have made a mistake whilst seeking to explain this delay.
As is discussed below, the reason for the delay was probably simply that neither the Athenians nor the Persians were willing to risk battle initially.
However, this new election could not be held on time due to delay in preparation and has been postponed to October 2006 after an agreement was reached amongst the rival parties.
It was most likely politics which had the biggest impact in leading to a delay of almost three decades before the second commercial channel became a reality.
With the help of five Central American Presidents, including Ortega, it was agreed that a voluntary demobilization of the contras should start in early December 1989, in order to facilitate free and fair elections in Nicaragua in February 1990 ( even though the Reagan administration had pushed for a delay of contra disbandment ).
Among Ike's objectives in not directly confronting McCarthy was to prevent McCarthy from dragging the Atomic Energy Commission into McCarthy's witch hunt for communists, which would interfere with, and perhaps delay, the AEC's important work on H-bombs.
The researchers found that when there was no time delay, both control rats and rats with lesions chose the familiar food.
A full length album, Mine Is Not A Holy War was released on September 12, 2006 after a several-month delay.
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A shortage of staff at the coroner's office is being blamed for contributing to the delay of the investigation.
Muddy roads and tangled underbrush slowed the Union approach, and Warren was not ready to attack until about 4 p. m. Sheridan blamed Warren's personal leadership for the delay.
Japanese media sources blamed Japanese – European technology integration for the delay.
That delay was blamed for the lack of success of the Hoover Moratorium.
Wright's delay subsequently resulted in him being blamed for the deaths of Burke and Wills.
No specific individuals or groups were blamed and the deaths were attributed to misadventure: the delay in evacuation and the flammable building materials were condemned.
The International Traffic in Arms Regulations have also been blamed for the delay of the CH-148 Cyclone which is currently two years behind the original schedule.
The delay was blamed on the new IBM punched card machines that were used to count the votes.
In his official report of the Battle of Seven Pines, Longstreet unjustly blamed Huger for the less than completely successful action, complaining of his tardiness on May 31 but not relating the reason for the delay.
The delay of three years could not be entirely be blamed to Renault: the different Arms for which the YSs were intended each had special requirements for the combinations of ( short and long range ) radio sets to be built in.
After a long delay blamed on the Watergate scandal, the FRE became federal law on January 2, 1975, when President Ford signed the Act to Establish Rules of Evidence for Certain Courts and Proceedings,,.
Custer asked whose fault the delay was and a scout named Charley Reynolds blamed Bloody Knife for the incident.
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By preying on the sick, by playing callously on the hopes of the desperate, by causing the sufferer to delay proper medical care, these medical ghouls create pain and misery by their very activity.
The landing delay caused by the malfunction in the Command / Service Module's main engine necessitated significant modifications to the mission schedule.
They cited the time delay of ten years between the alleged behavior by Thomas and Hill's accusations, and noted that Hill had followed Thomas to a second job and later had personal contacts with Thomas, including giving him a ride to an airport — behavior which they said would be inexplicable if Hill's allegations were true.
Audio unprocessed by reverb and delay is metaphorically referred to as " dry ", while processed audio is referred to as " wet ".
* reverse echo-a swelling effect created by reversing an audio signal and recording echo and / or delay whilst the signal runs in reverse.
A queuing delay induced by several such data packets might exceed the figure of 7. 8 ms several times over, in addition to any packet generation delay in the shorter speech packet.
For this reason, a low dose of a benzodiazepine is often used for several weeks when initiating SSRI / SNRI therapy in order to counteract the initial anxiety caused by the drugs until the therapeutic delay of the SSRI / SNRI is finished and the drug becomes effective.
1200 gave way to 2400 fairly rapidly, followed by a delay before 9, 600 became common.
# Before fading in the new track, check that the beats of two tracks match by listening to both channels together in the headphones, as the sound from the speakers can reach you with a delay.
During the delay caused by this detour, two other British ships joined the battle: Theseus, which had been disguised as a first-rate ship, followed Foley's track across Guerrier < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s bow.
To cross a wide valley ( where the journey delay caused by a flight of locks at either side would be unacceptable ) the centre of the valley can be spanned by an aqueduct-a famous example in Wales is the Pontcysyllte aqueduct across the valley of the River Dee.
After an appropriate delay without a return, these will then organise a search party ( usually made up by other cavers trained in cave rescues, as even professional emergency personnel are unlikely to have the skills to effect a rescue in difficult conditions ).
The next significant advance in computer memory came with acoustic delay line memory, developed by J. Presper Eckert in the early 1940s.
Chemical kinetics experiments can then be carried out in a " pump-probe " fashion using a laser to initiate the reaction ( for example by preparing one of the reagents by photolysis of a precursor ), followed by observation of that same species ( for example by laser-induced fluorescence ) after a known time delay.
1.700 seconds.