At the Pentagon, National Guard officials offered no explanation for the apparent delay.

Not at all-there are good and sufficient reasons for this apparent delay.

"If there was any apparent delay," he said, "it's because we wanted to make sure it was done properly."

The apparent delay can be lessened somewhat by using slower device dim rates.

Revelation is a story of how apparent delay and present weakness will only make the final judgment more emphatic.

No explanation was ever given by James Patterson or the publisher for the apparent delay.

Through May and June, the apparent delay in delivery fed gossip that Mary was not pregnant.

The apparent delay of the congress has stoked the already rampant speculation about jockeying for top positions.

And it makes his apparent delay in recognizing that "The Reagans" was a furor waiting to happen all the more surprising.

It could be a lengthy process, and one likely to raise more concerns about the apparent delay by officials in notifying the public of the outbreak.