The Palestinians, however, while they began the process of building a state, lost faith as land transfers were routinely delayed and as they watched the West Bank and Gaza sliced up by Israeli bypass roads and expansion of Jewish settlements.

Under the previous system, shipments of food, medicine and other goods that Iraq said were for civilians were routinely delayed for months while Security Council members and United Nations weapons inspectors pored over contracts to determine whether the sales could strengthen Iraq's military.

In the mid-20th century, the Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto enjoyed such rock-star status that Finnair, the national carrier, routinely delayed flights until he had boarded.

Northwest planes are routinely delayed, gate congestion makes hostages of passengers stuck on arriving planes, and even travelers on nonstop flights have reported lost luggage.

Lawful permanent residents, who by law should not be subjected to any different or additional hindrances, are routinely delayed for processing, creating a disparate impact of any such purchaser.

Today, when marriage is routinely delayed past 30 and the 20's are often an extended adolescence - a time of romantic and professional hopscotch - a 30th birthday feels to many the way 21 once did, as the gateway to the more serious adult world.

They said investigations were routinely delayed to save on overtime costs, that cases were prematurely "closed" to improve caseworker statistics, that new workers carried so many cases that they rarely saw their clients more than once.

The album was routinely delayed by Columbia.

The partition of Ireland in 1922 turned the boundary with County Armagh into an international frontier, after which trains were routinely delayed by customs inspections.