Delay in sentence

761 examples of Delay in a sentence

Well, they delay because they're afraid.

And I am furious that the hoax narrative, I firmly believe, caused a delay; it was part of the reason for the delay in their return.

So there are many things we can do to prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer's.

Around the time of puberty, teenagers experience a delay in their biological clock, which determines when we feel most awake and when we feel most sleepy.

Often the argument against later start times goes something like this: "Why should we delay start times for teenagers?

So we got started but we had a delay, because first, Pincho had to learn how to swim.

We connected national security to international security with about a seven minute time delay.

So noise in the bedroom can cause a delay in the time it takes us to fall asleep, it can wake us up during the night, and it can prevent our blood pressure from going down during the night.

I recently brought in a bunch of kids to do the classic marshmallow test, which is a measure of delay of gratification that also likely requires a lot of executive function.

By toggling this delay in one arm, the modulator acts like an on/off switch, emitting pulses of light.

If an array of many such arms, each with a tiny controlled delay, is stacked in parallel, something novel can be designed: a steerable laser beam.

And, you know, it doesn't look as convincing as we want; I've got wires coming out of the back of me, and there's a sixth-of-a-second delay between when we capture the video and we display it up there.

That is, they require interest rates in the hundred or thousands of percents in order to delay gratification and wait until next month for the extra 10 dollars.

There's a one sixth of a second delay.

I could see myself before I turned, and that small delay creates a little bit of a divide.

And what you see are substantial improvements of their immediate memory, of their ability to remember things after a delay, of their ability to control their attention, their language abilities and visual-spatial abilities.

That child already, at four, understood the most important principle for success, which is the ability to delay gratification.

They delay the now for later.

Because skills develop with exposure over time, repeated exposure to everyday situations that kids encounter: self-soothing skills or the ability to calm oneself down when upset; problem-solving skills, including the ability to resolve conflicts with others; delay of gratification, or the ability to keep your efforts going despite the fact that you have to wait over time to see what happens.

The heightened workout a bilingual brain receives throughout its life can also help delay the onset of diseases, like Alzheimer's and dementia by as much as five years.

There is a line of research on what's called geoengineering, which are various techniques that would delay the heating to buy us 20 or 30 years to get our act together.

Partly, they'd had a bit of a delay.

You can delay the gratification that the social acknowledgment brings, and you can understand that your mind mistakes the talking for the doing.

So, so and so patients have been diagnosed with something, or other patients have been diagnosed, and all these data are fed into a central repository, with some delay.

And Levitt goes as far as to say that all motivating power vanishes when rewards are handed out with a delay.

I first viewed it at a chaotic Sundance Film Festival screening that brought out the spirit of the movie- a giant air duct fell from the ceiling at the beginning of the movie, hit seven people and caused a twenty-five minute delay; half way through the film the sound started fluttering and the projector had to be stopped to fix it, and in the last twenty minutes the projector stopped and the film burned up.

Cleopatra (the delicious Monica Bellucci) is challenged by Cesar (Alain Chabat): in order to prove that the Egyptians are better than the Romans, she promises to build a fancy castle for Cesar in a period of three months, without any delay.

The film never once forgot about the time delay, and it was mentioned explicitly in a couple of places.

Annoying little pseudo-avant-garde gestures are sprinkled throughout the film- like out of focus superimpositions of red spheres over many of the concert and interview shots, shaky blurred camera work, use of digital delay on some of Leonard Cohen's comments (making it harder to hear what's being said) and a spooky, pretentious low drone under a lot of the interview segments (an attempt at added gravitas?).

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