Its tardy arrival focuses our attention on our responsibility, and on promotion of health and prevention of disease.
The old system was not equipped to transport the volume of refuse, but it was the only system the tardy colonial officials authorized.
Reliance on employers to pay out tax credits is no problem for those with stable, reliable employers; for those with tardy or transitory employers there may be real administrative problems.
The regime's tardy recognition of the need for such changes, however, would do little to raise public confidence in it and the dynasty's collapse would simply be postponed.
These people are very loath and very slow, very tardy indeed in obeying the behest of the central authority.
The policy underlying it is indiscriminate, inconsistent, tardy and heavily reliant upon trial and error.
We are left with misery and odium for the tardy recognition of that fact.
In both those cases you only got a tardy and panic-stricken settlement when you were on the verge, or over the verge, of civil war.
