However, the intervening First World War provided what proved to be a fatal delay for Home Rule.

Mr. Valenti said the negotiations with the Thruway Authority created a fatal delay.

A more prolonged fire would be a fatal delay.

Goodman wrote that the fatal delay had "sicklied over the bloom" of Jones's original enthusiasm.

But to heave to, even to reef canvas, would cause him fatal delay.

He thought it partly due, at least, to "the fatal delays that have sicklied over the bloom of original enthusiasm."

After an almost fatal delay, doctors have arrived on the scene.

The fatal delay, he wrote, and Goldberg, seizing his pen, scribbled in the margin:fatal delay.

He damned himself for letting his emotions carry him to a possibly fatal delay.

The unaccustomed delay - the fatal delay.