In a similar sense, the ever increasing number of online conversations may be disrupted by misinterpretations and anxiety that are produced by insuperable delays in the Internet connection.
Cheap labour may make Chinese clothing competitive in America, but if delays in shipment lie up working capital and cause winter coats to arrive in spring, trade may lose its advantages.
Combination therapy is a deliberate strategy to delay the development of drug resistance, which inevitably happens when any antimalarial drug is widely, and especially, unwisely used.
The key to this optimization is that by delaying the allocation of physical blocks until they need to be written to the disk, more blocks are present to allocate and write in contiguous blocks.
This method is typically not used in conjunction with fixed-delay execution repeating tasks, as their scheduled execution times are allowed to drift over time, and so are not terribly significant.
In some cases code designed to defer background work to keep the foreground responsive was actually slowing things down; in two cases I actually took out Sleeps, no joke!
The shroud was also damaged by a fire in the late Middle Ages which could have added carbon material, resulting in a higher radiocarbon content and a later calculated age.