Rain, of course, could delay the seventh-game date even longer.

As the investigation dragged through last winter, the companies were forced to repeatedly delay the date by which they expected to close the deal.

The companies begged the standards board to delay the effective date of the rule, but in vain.

The United States wanted to delay the effective date of the treaty for nine years.

A sustained campaign of legal action and demonstrations had delayed the start-up date until 1986.

If we are forced to do so again, these measures could delay the date by which the limit is reached by several weeks.

And he said agencies should delay the effective date of recently published rules for 60 days, so the Bush administration could scrutinize them.

But the ruling party delayed the effective date of the reform until the year 2000.

This leads me to advocate delaying the date when these new provisions come into force.

I waited until we got back to the house before asking my parents to delay the starting date of our grounding.