And under board rules, any two members could delay a vote on the resolution for at least 24 hours.

Last month, they delayed votes twice on the deal, which was announced in March.

One other possibility is that the legislature could delay a vote in an effort to save face.

This is in rare cases used by opposition parties to delay votes.

Democrats are right to delay a vote on tax cuts until after a budget resolution is adopted.

Computer Sciences will try to delay such a vote.

Those last-minute changes delayed a vote in the Senate today and may bring further adjustments when the bill is taken up there early next week.

Russia wants to delay a vote until April 26.

Some Republicans insisted today that they had no intention of delaying a vote on a popular bill.

France did not halt debate on the resolution; it delayed a vote.