Delay
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The war in Iraq did not
delay
the Union’s “big bang” enlargement, and was not the reason for the failure of referenda in France and the Netherlands on the Constitutional and Lisbon treaties.
But, according to the vote counts released by the government after a suspicious month-long delay, the MDC’s margin of victory – 48% to 43% – fell short of the 50% required to avoid a run-off election.
Building a joint future for Europe and Africa, starting with the Mediterranean, will be difficult, but that is no reason to
delay.
Events in China are no reason for further
delay.
Because, after the Balkan wars it would be irresponsible to permit a zone of instability along EU frontiers, Germany favors enlargement without
delay.
Current US law attempts to blunt these competitive disadvantages through deferral, allowing US multinationals to
delay
tax payments on their foreign subsidiaries' earnings until they are repatriated to the US.
Add to that the
delay
in the opening of the Mexican energy sector, and it seems that low oil prices could amount to a net gain for the Kingdom.
China, too, most likely wants to retain, at least for a while, the benefits of single-party rule, and
delay
the transition to “messier” governance influenced by multiple voices.
Unfortunately, it seems that these measures did not so much resolve the Greek debt crisis as
delay
it.
Regulations can
delay
market entry, but technology cannot be stopped forever; new entrants eventually will break through.
Today, the most important issue facing Nato concerns whether or not to admit the Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – now, after some delay, or never.
Some Nato members hope to evade these problems altogether through
delay.
Similarly, while the world today searches for ways to confront dependence on fossil fuels and seeks other, cleaner energy sources, Russia continues to live off its oil and gas, which only encourages it to
delay
the economic and political restructuring that it will need to succeed in the long term.
What steady-state advocates forget is that stagnating or declining incomes would heighten resistance to higher taxes on fossil fuels and
delay
investment in green technologies (and thus the transition to new industries and the creation of better jobs).
If the World Bank is to survive, its management must streamline its complicated and unwieldy bureaucracy, fixing what internal reviews described over a decade ago as “fragmentation, duplication, and delay” in assurance, safeguards, and fiduciary processes.
Given the affordability of these measures, there is no excuse to
delay
implementation.
All this tinkering could be done because there was an extraordinary consensus in the UN Security Council on the need not to
delay
the trials.
That will leave no one with any credible reason to
delay
resumption of the six-party talks.
Chapter 40 states, concisely, another powerful principle: “To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny or delay, right or justice.”
Do you think this could
delay
the introduction of Eurobonds – which, if I am correct, you support – as a possible solution to remedy the current discrepancies among rates in Europe.
These intrinsically very similar Slavic nations show that the effects of a
delay
in reforms are dramatic, and they are bound to last for over a decade.
The unequivocal lesson is that the costs of any
delay
or inconsistency in economic reforms are horrendous.
A decade ago, my laboratory showed that an anti-prion antibody could significantly
delay
– and, in some cases, prevent – infection in mice that had been exposed to prions.
The Fed would then
delay
tightening for longer than anticipated.
Everything must be done, even a unilateral military strike, to prevent or at least
delay
Iran’s acquisition of such a weapon.
Among other things, this reflects the tendency, supported by empirical evidence, for higher incomes to impel households to
delay
having children.
If this isn’t daunting enough, consider this: if we
delay
taking action by even a few years, we probably won’t hit the required targets, even with a temporary decline in carbon emissions associated with reduced economic activity in the near term.
Any
delay
will cause negative consequences to continue to accumulate.
Capital controls and sterilization of reserve flows might help to
delay
the adjustment, but a persistent one-directional capital flow will eventually force the fixed-exchange-rate country to allow either its exchange rate or its money supply to adjust.
The majority of children in institutions have developmental
delay
or intellectual disabilities, which institutions themselves can cause or worsen.
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