While the deliberate delay continued, Mart's right hand kept moving, making slashing strokes with the lump of charcoal.

And a deliberate two- or three-month delay in the release of the hostages would have been a despicable tactic, for any reason.

But negotiations to establish technical standards have been going slowly, prompting the cable industry's critics to accuse it of deliberate delays.

The accord was struck one day after the committee chairman had accused the Clinton Administration of deliberate delay on earlier requests to supply information voluntarily.

He finally reached his starting mark at the edge of the pool, but the referee disqualified him for "deliberate delay."

The recovery process, officials say, is painfully slow and hobbled by deliberate delay.

By now Will could recognize a deliberate delay.

The deliberate delay in approving these regulations would seem to suggest that there is little real involvement with South Africa.

An alternate version of this theory is that there were deliberate delays in organising searches for the ship.

Conein did not suspect a deliberate delay by the American embassy.