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.

This delay allowed Jefferson Davis finally to send reinforcements from the garrisons of coastal cities and another highly rated but prickly general, Braxton Bragg, to help organize the western forces.

Despite the delay in shipping the album to certain stores, In Pieces was another instant No. 1 success, selling a total of about 10 million copies worldwide.

This stands in some distinction from other scriptures by not using triumphal tones as the voice of God is given to be viewed but rather one of progressive development, social context, and outright delay in application until another day.

Hence, " we must be ready much earlier " and " we will try to delay the war for another two years.

He questions the delay and cost-to-benefit ratio of first establishing a base or outpost on an asteroid or another Apollo Program-like return to the Moon, as neither would be able to provide all of its own oxygen, water, or energy ; these resources are producible on Mars, and he expects people would be there thereafter.

The Time Slot Interchanger ( TSI ) in the SM uses random-access memory to delay each speech sample to fit into a time slot which will carry its call through the exchange to another or, in some cases, the same SM.

In telecommunications, delay encoding is the encoding of binary data to form a two-level signal where ( a ) a " 0 " causes no change of signal level unless it is followed by another " 0 " in which case a transition to the other level takes place at the end of the first bit period ; and ( b ) a " 1 " causes a transition from one level to the other in the middle of the bit period.

Packet switching contrasts with another principal networking paradigm, circuit switching, a method which sets up a limited number of dedicated connections of constant bit rate and constant delay between nodes for exclusive use during the communication session.

As, sometimes, a tube or another mechanical part has to cross a wall or floor that has special fire insulation material or that have special fire insulation resistance, it is needed to recover the original level of security of the fire system in case of maintenance, or to reach the designed level of security, so to avoid or delay the propagation of flame, smoke and heat accordingly.

Realizing that another rejection would be politically vascular, opponents of reform decided to use amendments to change the bill's essential character, voting, for example, to delay consideration of clauses in the bill that disfranchised the rotten boroughs.

For another example, some early ways of implementing the instruction pipeline led to a delay slot.

If exceeded, the player gets a penalty card for delay of game or late play and either loses his turn or gets another penalty every five seconds thereafter to either comply with any violated rules, or play a card.

Additionally, Samsonov's Second Army was having serious problems moving forward due to poor supply preparations, and unknown to him, Rennenkampf had decided to delay the First Army's advance to regroup after Gumbinnen, believing the Germans were preparing another attack.

When the caliph insists she select another husband, her loyal slave advises her to delay.

He claimed to have defeated an attempt at vote fraud by Republicans by ordering the delay of a train that was carrying men to vote illegally in another county, enabling Douglas to win the county.

In June 2007 another two year delay was announced by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

Marcus took the Parthicus Maximus now, after another tactful delay.

In another delay tactic, the bill was criticized as being unconstitutional by Einhorn's attorneys and they tried to get the French courts to deny the extradition again, on the grounds that the law would be inapplicable.

With 12: 13 remaining in the second quarter, another power outage created yet another 30-minute delay before play resumed again.

As Task Force 34 proceeded south they were further delayed when the battle force slowed to 12 knots so that the battleships could refuel their escorting destroyers, costing perhaps another two and a half hour delay.

Native Image Generator ( Ngen ) by Microsoft is another approach at reducing the initial delay.

The choice of proceeding to production tooling turned out to be another source of delay, with the first aircraft having to adhere to strict production standards or deal with the bureaucracy of attaining concessions to allow them to exhibit differences from later airframes.

: Nor shall any State keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another State, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.