The long delay in opening the Second Front was now working to Russia's advantage.

Another delay followed due to a long standards process before 28. 8 was released, only to be quickly replaced by 33. 6.

After a long delay, elections were finally held in 2010.

It is expensive to produce a completely new edition of the Britannica, and its editors delay for as long as fiscally sensible ( usually about 25 years ).

Another common example are quickstarts like those shipped with OpenOffice. org, RealPlayer, QuickTime and Adobe products, in which a bloated program that normally takes a long time to load is kept in memory to reduce the delay in starting it.

Earl Elder, in the preface to his independent 1961 translation, remarked on the curiosity of this long publishing delay in his 1961 preface:

Latencies of even a few milliseconds are enough to disrupt percussive parts and cause phasing and flanging effects, but are otherwise acceptable as long as the amount of delay is consistent.

Rollout games are frequently played high-low split, and players choose which cards to reveal in order to delay as long as possible revealing which half of the pot they intend to win.

* elaborate studio effects, such as backwards tapes, panning, phasing, long delay loops, and extreme reverb ;

For infinitely long sinusoids, a change in is the same as a shift in time, such as a time delay.

But if the delay of the output ( relative to the input ) is bounded during a process that operates over an unlimited time, then that signal processing algorithm is real-time, even if the throughput delay may be very long.

In addition, most speech applications require low coding delay, as long coding delays interfere with speech interaction.

There, he tells his overlord ( the Earl, also named Eric ) about the new land and is criticised for his long delay in reporting.

Captain Wilder approaches under a white flag and has a short discussion with Spender during which the archaeologist explains that if he manages to kill off the expedition it may delay human colonization of the planet for a few more years, possibly long enough that the expected nuclear war on Earth will protect Mars from human colonization completely.

In circuit switching, the bit delay is constant during a connection, as opposed to packet switching, where packet queues may cause varying and potentially indefinitely long packet transfer delays.

When analog long distance trunks were commonplace, for example in 12 channel carrier, group delay distortion had to be corrected in repeaters.

Choosing a value α close to 1 makes the weighted average immune to changes that last a short time ( e. g., a single segment that encounters long delay ).

# This excitation is output and simultaneously fed back into a delay line L samples long.

After a long delay, during which the site became a dangerous eyesore, thousands of ordinary Berkeley citizens, merchants, students, and hippies took matters into their own hands, planting trees, shrubs, flowers and grass to convert the land into a park.

The reason for this delay in declaring a woman postmenopausal is because periods are usually extremely erratic at this time of life, and therefore a reasonably long stretch of time is necessary to be sure that the cycling has actually ceased completely.

Multiple studies very clearly show that keeping blood glucose levels as close to the normal, nondiabetic range as possible does very significantly help prevent, slow, or delay the long term complications of diabetes ( e. g., eye, kidney, blood vessel, and nerve damage ).

In order for such timers to have reasonable resolution, developers could not afford WaitNextEvent to delay too long, and so low " sleep " parameters were usually set.

" God is my witness ," he explained, " I could have abstained longer than the weal of my country could have permitted, not my long delay bred in the breasts of many a great jealousy of my inability, as if I were a barren stock.

He was shaking with anger, his breath coming in long, painful gasps.

And he was handsome, despite the long thin scar that slanted across his cheek.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.

Moreover, as long as the weapon was carried openly, the sheriff's office had made no previous issue of it.

he was long past the point of coherent thinking.

`` Well '', he explained, `` s'posin' you was a nester swingin' the long rope??

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

So long as Sally's pa was coming out best on the haggle, Dan didn't feel the need of putting in his two-bits' worth.

The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.

It was a rough long ride through the mud and pot holes.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.

Her white blond hair was clean and brushed long straight down to her shoulders.

His long nose wiggled at the smells of frizzling bacon and heating java, but the fire was low, and he wanted to waste no time.

Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

They went down in a heap and for a long minute there was nothing to see but flailing arms and legs.

There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.

Commanding the Continental Army for six long years of the Revolution, he was the indispensable factor in the ultimate victory.