Getting permission to build roads, especially in large swaths of state forests along the frontier, is delaying construction.

得到许可修建公路，特别是大规模砍伐沿着边界的国家森林，正在被拖延修建。

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Whether it's waking us up early, delaying traffic or forcing us to take a detour, construction disturbs our day-to-day lives in countless ways.

无论是在清晨惊醒我们的好梦，还是设置路障阻碍交通，或者是迫使我们绕路行走，建筑行业都干扰了我们日常生活的方方面面。

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Home sales and prices have begun to creep higher in recent months following a year of declines, but developers are delaying new construction in the face of unsold inventory gluts.

经历了一年的下滑后，住房销量和价格在近几个月都开始回升，但鉴于未售存量房依然积压，开发商们正在推迟建造新屋。

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The argument could also be made that delaying construction of the new Ford class of carriers might actually increase the long-term cost of carriers, since the next-generation carrier is designed to reduce crewing requirements by hundreds of personnel, and manpower expenses are the biggest driver of life-cycle costs for aircraft carriers.

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Thus, delaying carrier construction would allow some near-term cost avoidance, but over the longer term the service would end up paying more for each carrier and other combat systems such as the Virginia-class attack submarine.

FORBES: Despite Budget Woes, The Navy Is Unlikely To Cut Carriers

Republicans went to great lengths to try to avoid a vote on the Democratic "Moms" resolution, although they argued that they were trying to keep irrelevant debate from delaying the pending military construction spending bill.

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