Now, five minutes of equally unavoidable delay - and the long arm of chance had struck at the hope of a world.

If unavoidable delays do occur the operative should be paid at the basic rate and the hours excluded from bonus calculations.

"It needs due process and assessments, some elements of control, so there are unavoidable delays."

The reporting process, the translation into 22 languages and publishing lead to unavoidable delays.

The bridge had caused an unavoidable delay, and now the city was four and a half miles behind optimum.

The unavoidable delay imposed by Ferayd had helped, as well.

"I am sure he will appreciate your adding to the unavoidable delay in my arrival at the scene."

But I must begin on another subject: there has been a great and very vexatious, but unavoidable delay in the publication of your book.

It will cause an unavoidable delay in our scheduled arrival, sir.

He had a job to do, and there was nothing to be gained by agonizing over unavoidable delays.