English-Portuguese translation for "delay"

I know she agrees with the Commission that delay is to be avoided wherever possible.

I am bound to say that this would lead to a substantial delay in future recruitments.

However, I believe that delay is a message which Parliament should not send.

I regret the delay in providing the honourable Member with the information requested.

I urge him to set up this office without delay - we have already lost too much time.

Negotiations on the award of concessions must be completed without delay.

The Commission must, above all, put some concrete proposals on the table without delay.

It is high time that Turkey also abolished the death penalty - without delay.

The Commission hopes that a decision can be taken in November so that negotiations can start without too much delay.

Waiting for ratification of the Amsterdam Treaty seems to me to amount to a long delay, especially for the applicant countries.

Delay by the confirmation

We are still waiting for a communication from the Commission, which has been delayed a number of times.

Two months ago they moved to delay our approval of the accession treaties.

It is exactly because we want a strong document that we offered the suggestion of delay.

A three-year delay for a compulsory regulation is unacceptable to us.

In principle, though, it is able to accept delay to a limited extent.

This leads me back to the point I made in my introduction: delay will not help the ratification process.

Think also of the slow and delayed attitude of the United States with regard to UN funding.

It is an incontestable fact that postponing or delaying payments is being used for purposes far removed from that of financing the commercial cycle.

Delays were also a feature of the implementation of pre-accession aid, especially in the case of the SAPARD programme, where only 9.2 % of the appropriations were disbursed.

It is, however, the best that we could achieve if we were to end once and for all the Council's delaying tactics.

Nor has it confined itself to these delaying tactics.

There is therefore no longer any reason to delay the ratification of this Treaty any longer.

I do not feel at the moment that Parliament wishes to delay the vote.

If necessary, we should be prepared to delay negotiations until we have them.

In consultation with other groups, we would ask to delay this matter.

There is no good reason why this House should delay debating that report.

We are, however, concerned that the practical problems may delay the implementation.

I trust that this will not delay the final approval of the directive.

The work must under no circumstances be used as an excuse to delay enlargement.

In seeking democratic support for this historic enterprise, we are certainly not attempting to delay the process but to reinforce it.

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He arrived at the airport on time, but his plane was delayed because of weather conditions, so it may be another ten minutes before he arrives.

Stalling tactics are used to withhold and delay information.

We must not delay the process of accession through expedient measures, neither should we rush things.

It is clear that any change in the original decisions may lead to a delay in the implementation of the LEADER initiative.

As Mr Brok said, there is no longer any excuse for delaying enlargement.

Let us therefore give means to its existence, let us launch pilot projects without delay.

What, instead, is required without delay is practical action.

Let us not delay, especially as this is no recent matter.

The Commission has not delayed in taking action; it is determined to achieve a real improvement in the situation, and this must be visible by this summer at the latest.