However, Mr Fabius said that "terrorists" had taken advantage of this delay to attack, prompting Mali's interim president to ask for French intervention.
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Johnson conceded the delay over appointing a new attack coach was "a bit frustrating" when he formally assumed his role as England team manager on Tuesday.
But in contradiction to Israel's insistence that the option of using force against Iran must be maintained, America's secretary of defence, Robert Gates, has cautioned that a military attack would only delay rather than destroy its nuclear programme.
With or without the UN's approval, America will not want to delay the punishment: the best time for an attack on Iraq would be early next year, when there is less heat and dust to hamper ground troops.
After six overs with the score at 37-0 there was a 49-minute delay, after which Pietersen brought Steve Harmison into the attack.
The proposed plan would retire seven cruisers early, delay construction of the next large-deck amphibious warfare ship by one year, cancel the second Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) in 2014, delay construction of two smaller amphibious warfare ships, and reduce procurement of littoral combat ships by two and joint high speed vessels by eight.
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President Mugabe launched - after a brief delay to rearrange his notes - into a long and familiar attack on Western imperialism and past injustices.
Many fossil-fuel interests and their allies are following the same attack-the-science strategy that tobacco companies adopted to delay smoking regulation.
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"PLA analysts consistently identify logistics and C4ISR infrastructure as U.S. strategic centers of gravity suggesting that PLA commanders will almost certainly attempt to target these system with both electronic countermeasures weapons and network attack and exploitation tools, likely in advance of actual combat to delay U.S. entry or degrade capabilities in a conflict, " the report said.
If we were to launch an attack now against the Iranian nuclear facilities, we could at least delay the Iranian program for many, many years, and the cost of our intervention would, therefore, be far less than if we had to face a nuclear adversary, which is the option we now face with regard to North Korea, so, yes, you will see those kinds of arguments.
The White House called it an attempted terrorist attack and it took Obama three days to address the incident publicly, delay that some Republicans in Congress criticized.
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Now into this gloom comes a new type of drug, called an anti-CD3 antibody, that aims for the first time to delay or prevent development of the devastating disease by arresting the immune system's attack on pancreatic islet cells.
The delay in sending a bill to Congress allowed opponents to gather momentum and put together their attack.
In a cybersecurity emergency, such as a terrorist attack or a major natural disaster, our country must be prepared to respond without delay.
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However, the attack on the UN headquarters may have cost America another contributor of troops: Japan appears likely to delay sending soldiers to Iraq, fearing that the security situation is too uncertain.
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