danger of delay

Their climbing balanced the danger of delay against the hazard of a direct attack on the slope.

And while he knows the danger of delay, he consented as readily as any of us would if asked for a cigarette-paper.

The infantry arrived at the appointed moment, and dreading the dangers of delay, charged at once into the town, which they found utterly unprepared for an attack.

Education by periodic distribution of leaflets in order direct attention to the importance of cleanliness and to the dangers of delay in securing early treatment.

(from Song XIII,The Danger of Delay)

At once, then, for well they realized the danger of delay, and with a stolid courage born of many a like adventure, the seamen leaped fearlessly out upon the sand.

You recall that in my 'The Case of Oscar Brodski' that I said '...the danger of delay; the vital importance of instant action before that frail and fleeting thing that we call a clue has time to evaporate'.

Passepartout grew more and more impatient as they went on, while Fix longed to get out of this difficult region, and was more anxious than Phileas Fogg himself to be beyond the danger of delays and accidents, and set foot on English soil.

Three times in the latter part of September 1917 the Committee was warned by the union of the danger of delay in setting adequate and standard rates of wages for all seamen; three times on the advice of the Liverpool Shipowners it temporised.