Tardy Sentence Examples

Avoid being tardy for a job interview appointment.

I was tardy in keeping him informed, especially concerning Julie, now a sort-of member of our group.

Again, I 've been rather tardy in explaining.

They were just a little tardy in their administration.

Delayed during the autumn months in Poland by the tardy arrival of reinforcements from Pomerania, it was not till November 1707 that Charles was able to take the field.

Recently I 've been a busy bunny, hence the tardy update of the web site.

Remember, things such as special field trips, or penalty or late fees if you are tardy when picking up your child, can add to the cost you pay.

This was n't helped by an extremely tardy over rate by the opposition, who bowled their penultimate hour 18 overs in 1hr 15mins.

The tardy introduction of representative democracy there by Britain provided an excuse for the dismantling of much of what was formerly in place.

Contacted for an explanation of their tardy response to the disaster, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott issued the following statement.

His speech at Marburg on June 17th 1934 was a tardy attempt to halt a process, which he had helped to start.

The objectives considered are average tardiness and the number of tardy jobs.

This can be a tardy process but on average it is all completed by lunchtime on the day of completion.

Sagasta's attempt to conciliate both the Cubans and the United States by a tardy offer of colonial home rule, the recall of General Weyler, and other concessions, did not avert the disastrous war with the United States and its catastrophe.

Gaol deliveries were of rare occurrence, even when tardy trial ended in acquittal release was delayed until illegal charges in the way of fees had been satisfied.

But on the eve of the occupation of Casale by the French, Mattioli - actuated by a tardy sense of patriotism or by the hope of further gain - betrayed the transaction to the governments of Austria, Spain, Venice and Savoy.

Our group was a little tardy to the gig, the pull of Manchester's outstanding Deansgate Locks proved too alluring.

No one in his position has been so often, nor brought tardy parliamentarians back to their duties in Christmas week.

Again, I've been rather tardy in explaining.

This wasn't helped by an extremely tardy over rate by the opposition, who bowled their penultimate hour 18 overs in 1hr 15mins.

Gregory empowered her to treat for peace, but the Florentine ambassadors were first tardy and then faithless.

This promise, of course, was never fulfilled, for Ney employed the duke all day at Quatre Bras; and, furthermore, the duke's tardy concentration made it quite impossible for him to help Blucher directly ontheLignybattlefield.

So it came to pass that, while he was unable, by reason of imperfect training and too tardy development, with all his pains, to make any contribution to physical science or to mathematics as instrumental in physical research, he attempted a task which no other adherent of the new " mechanical philosophy " conceived - nothing less than such a universal construction of human knowledge as would bring Society and Man (at once the matter and maker of Society) within the same principles of scientific explanation as were found applicable to the world of Nature.

I let the Montrose go (she is heading across toward Wemyss Bay) and await the tardy arrival of Saint Columba.

Sorry I have been so tardy in sending my thanks for the lovely Sennheisers.

Being tardy, taking too many days off and being unable to hold a job are all familiar problems for alcoholics.

The question now was how to occupy the military activity of a young, handsome, chivalric and gallant prince, ondoyant et divers, intoxicated by his first victory and his tardy accession to fortune.

For no other reason did the minister for the colonies, Seor Maura, in 1894 fail to convince the Cortes, and even the Liberal party, that his very moderate Cuban Home Rule Bill was an indispensable and wise, though tardy, attempt to avert a conflict which many plain symptoms showed to be imminent in the West Indies.

Their fears were well founded, for their long absence had alarmed the king, and he had started out to look for his tardy servants, and just as they were all hidden, he came along slowly, looking on all sides for the fairies.

Their fears were well founded, for their long absence had alarmed the King, and he mounted North Wind and went out in search of his tardy couriers.

The WWW news was either negative or tardy because each took turns bickering at the other until Dean was ready to toss the entire family.

The annuity payable to the pope has, for instance, been made subject to quinquennial prescription, so that in the event of tardy recognition of the law the Vatican could at no time claim payment of more than five years annuity with interest.

Not till the crown prince Wladislaus arrived with tardy reinforcements did the war assume a different character, Chodkiewicz opening a new career of victory by taking the fortress of Drohobu in 1617.

As vicar of the Holy See he convened a synod at Capua on the 7th of March 1087, resumed the papal insignia on the 21st of March, and received tardy consecration at Rome on the 9th of May.

The influence of the Renaissance seems to have been tardy in penetrating into Wales itself, nor did the numerous ecclesiastical changes during the period of the Reformation cause any marked signs either of resentment or approval amongst the mass of the Welsh people, although some of the ancient Catholic customs lingered on obstinately.

But the Confederates safely recrossed the Potomac, and McClellan showed his former faults in a tardy pursuit.

The enthusiasm of the nation he had saved forgot his tardy adhesion to the popular cause, and at the parliament of Ayr on the 25th of April 1315 the succession was settled by a unanimous voice on him, and, failing males of his body, on his brother Edward and his heirs male, or failing them on his daughter Marjorie and her heirs, if she married with his consent.

Meanwhile the estates, with the tardy assent of Vienna, had undertaken to pay the expenses of publishing Palacky's capital work, The History of the Bohemian People (5 vols., 1836-1867).

In a letter written with singular energy and dignity of thought and language, he repelled the tardy advances of his patron.

Meanwhile the loyal Cape colonists were chafing at the tardy manner in which they were enrolled by the imperial authorities.

Thus he paves the way for his tardy rebuke of present disorders, which he reserves until two-thirds of his epistle is completed.

Four years after the fall of Ottakar he obtained from the princes a tardy and reluctant assent to the granting of Austria, Styria and Carniola to his own sons, Rudolph and Albert.