How To Use Belated In A Sentence

McCoy had fully embraced the idea of belated fatherhood his declarations to the contrary notwithstanding. The Better Man
Howard's belated triumphalism in the South Pacific may be no more successful than Mussolini's equally tardy attempts at empire building in North Africa.
It's a grey, cold day here in Amsterdam and I have to go and raid the fridge to find something for our belated Saturday brunch.
When turnout in an election for the state government in 2008 reached an unprecedented 60%, many Indians misread this as belated Kashmiri acquiescence in Indian rule.
Slept and read, bought groceries, hot tub, finally scraping together enough energy to cook some Indian food in belated recognition of my wife's birthday. Crash and burn

Happy Belated I was about to type in 'bleated' which actually would suit for the daughter of a goat judge, wouldn't it? Once in a Blue Moon
I got a belated birthday card from my cousin yesterday.
P. S: Happy belated birthday to Sub, congrats on passing your driving test, you know what to do next (* wink wink*). Babycartercl Diary Entry
At the end, the grandpas and grandmas were treated with a belated but sumptuous Onam feast which the aged from various day care centres and old age homes in the city enjoyed.
That belated discovery caused Sun to cancel the intended roll-out of the expected 514 model.
At last realizing the futility of superior "kinetics" — roughly speaking, putting a lot of metal in the air — American forces belatedly adopted a counterinsurgency strategy. The Surprising Lessons of Vietnam
The rechristening is a much-needed - albeit belated Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0
John made a belated attempt to apologize.
The necessary information about the quality of the mortgager is surely available, as evidenced by banks belatedly tightening up their lending to risky borrowers. John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...
His belated admission to the ranks of the tenjo-bito provoked some derision and he was commonly spoken of as Gen-sammi (the Minamoto third rank). A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
The award is being made in belated recognition of her services to the industry.
I reveived a belated birthday card this morning.
But the Home Office's difficulties here will stem from its belated discovery of the need to bolt aspects of the right kind of ID system onto the wrong one.
There is doubt, though, about a medal Cotta received nearly three years ago in belated recognition of his heroism, the Distinguished Bruce Cotta
Finally the ‘deceased wife's sister’ law was belatedly reformed in 1906, although marriage between such affines as adoptive parents and children, and adoptive siblings, remained within the prohibited degrees.
Wishing you and your family a belated Christmas and an early Happy New Year
The belated realization that these things are no longer so leads to the embittered and baffled reaction that they ought to be so.
Only belatedly was it discovered that a drain in a workhouse near the well had been accidentally ruptured by a pickaxe.
Andrew J. Bacevich on The Dark Side by Jane Mayer: With the appearance of this very fine book, Hillary Clinton can claim a belated vindication of sorts: A right-wing conspiracy does indeed exist, although she misapprehended its scope and nature. An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
Because of the belatedness of capitalist development, the working class was numerically too weak to carry out the democratic and national struggle.
A belated sorry to those I owe, and I'm working on the 'assertiveness' - not the rudeness. Moschikat Diary Entry
To some, the idea of sexagenarian roommates having fun (and even getting laid) in their old age was too frightening to watch-but that was then, and this is now, where MILFs and even GILFs have their own video series, so how could a respectable parody producer not want to give these old broads their belated XXX bones? AVN Industry News
Not until Ramses came to join us did a belated realization of other responsibilities strike me. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
The recent production of the play that used the gay version was a fascinating experiment, not a belated act of justice.
The award is being made in belated recognition of her services to the industry.
So we wandered in mellow mood out into the afternoon sunshine for the trip home and a belated siesta.
The recent production of the play that used the gay version was a fascinating experiment, not a belated act of justice.
The belated realization came that that might no longer be the case. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Then on Sunday a huge crowd attended his belated 25th birthday celebrations in The Saratoga.
This was more than just a belated postscript to one of the closest and most bizarre elections in history.
Earlier, Goodison had failed to go back after being over the start line when racing belatedly began an hour late.
While sound achieves an end-rhyme at line 40, "the clear universe of things around," the formal chord is already belated in the train of the triple chord of sound in the commotion of 30-34 about the phenomenon itself. Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound
and he went off rather thankfully to attend to his belated deliveries. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
In a belated move, the education authorities decided to crack down on teaching practices that are harming the neutrality of education.
and he went off rather thankfully to attend to his belated deliveries. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
The leaders realized belatedly that the coup would be disastrous for everyone.
On his belated arrest in 1961, the Austrian-born euthanasiast and flautist Georg Renno, deputy director of the SS gassing institution at Hartheim, declared that “Turning the tap on was no big deal.” Kalooki Nights
In concert with contemporary theory, she posits a world of belated, thwarted deixis, of quasi-chimerical example.
(I consign to parentheses the equally problematic issue of race, although few readers familiar with Austen will want to ignore the near-hysterical irruption of "the slave-trade" into one of Jane Fairfax's earlier conversations [271], as if in compulsive, belated echo of the formidable subtext haunting Mansfield Park.) Saying What One Thinks: Emma--_Emma_--at Box Hill
Apple will continue to own Nokia & Samsung and maybe even RIM until the old guard belatedly tries to correct course. watching Nokia and Samsung feels to me like watching GM and Ford, only this disintegration is happening at higher speed. What Will Mobile Phones Look Like in 2010?
Hence the belatedness of my take on this, one of last year's box-office hits. Archive 2010-07-01
The statement was a belated acknowledgement that the project had not been a success.
It occurred to me belatedly that in this seaside town, the menu item must refer to the * fish* called dorado rather than the way the taco is prepared! Taco vs. Taquito
The Norwegians eventually realised what was happening and chartered a seal-hunting ship to accept the unit's belated surrender.
With most recent economic indicators pointing to a belated, but strong, recovery, they have been reduced to grumping about the pay levels of the new jobs being created.
They are belated juvenilia which ran contrary to this talent.
He took a step, then froze, belatedly thinking of booby traps. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
By emphasizing rather than sublimating the oppositional tensions propelling his belated poetic project, Virgil kept his commitment to the present, even as he ostensibly addressed the past.
Their subsequent revival and belated acceptance into the rock fold was one of the period's more surprising reversals.
As the point guard, he will shoulder much of the responsibility for directing matters on the court and he is aware that his belated link-up with his colleagues has hindered the team's evolution.
In a kind of visual coda that seems to exist outside the novel's spatial and formal boundaries, the hallucinatory episode encapsulates the unconscious primacy of the visual and the belated helplessness of narrative in the face of it.
I'm debating whether that should count as a belated Friday entry or an early Tuesday one.
Even those who used to "misappreciate" him belatedly appreciated him, because the manner of his death awed many who had been jaded to politicians 'excesses, and as an editorial said, "it was very clear from the photographic evidence that he truly lived his pro-poor advocacies himself. Bulatlat
Gerry Adams said it was a bit rich of David Trimble to belatedly complain about his little trip to London to deliver an important speech.
Marina rolled her eyes - why did she get the feeling that belatedness was inherited from her mother's side of the family?
In this sense the trauma this week is that of a party involved in a belated change of political strategy.
The Revolution certainly marked a belated victory for the policy of Exclusion, and finally established the legislative sovereignty of Parliament.
So, finally and belatedly, the idea that is creeping up is that of a two-speed Europe, in which a hard core of integrationist states steams ahead in the direction of a United States of Europe.
So in a few minutes I'm heading into town to send belated birthday presents and to try and convince myself to think about Christmas with appropriate jollity and generosity.
After work, we drove down to Warwick and picked up Spooky's belated birthday present, a new turntable so that she can begin digitizing the squillion or so pieces of vinyl she has stored at her parents. Glurk (A Love Story)
So the sanctions, belated and porous though they were, did have some limited effect.
More than 100,000 people were belatedly evacuated from the zone following the disaster.
Given that the last Pope, probably recalling his countryman Nicolaus Copernicus, gave a belated but none-the-less necessary pardon of Galileo Galilei, it makes me wonder how far back he wishes to turn the calendar. Archive 2006-09-01
If you missed out on Valentine's Day, surprise a loved one with a belated trip to the most romantic capital of Europe.
Some press representatives with whom I talked with agreed that the apparent purpose of this message - beyond the concern of real overreaction - was to divert attention from the belatedness of interest on the part of government agencies and policymakers. Space weather: Are we ready for a solar strike?
Their subsequent revival and belated acceptance into the rock fold was one of the period's more surprising reversals.
Communist effort of 1871 may be termed a belated attempt on the part of The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)
Ah, well, we just may have "outsmarted" ourselves, perhaps as a result of creation of the technologies we are now so dependent on and have begun to realize, belatedly, have also outstripped our ability to regulate within the population increase's hyperbolic upward curve and in co-evolutionary harmony with the finite resources and resiliancy of our planet's biosphere. Posthuman Blues
This belatedness renders much of what I might otherwise say redundant, since other, better critics have previously covered most of the things I would otherwise have said here: Dan 'Hart to Hart' Hartland, for instance a much more expert Holmesian than I gets it pretty much right, I think. Archive 2010-07-01
Buildings unmaintained for decades are getting belated make-overs.
While it's not for a journalist to nitpick a minister's theological credentials, that implication of belated seismic revenge on Haitian children seems defamatory of God.
I hastened to that stand of "jarvies" which has often been the hope and shelter of belated member of St. St.phen's, or bewetted fugitive from the Opera. Pelham — Volume 08
I belatedly wished her a happy birthday
They did make a belated attempt to reduce the noise.
Belatedly recalling her bereaved state, she let out a sharp, unconvincing yelp of woe and stooped to scrape up a handful of dust, which she poured haphazardly over her head. The Mummy Case
Also a belated 81st birthday is extended to Maggie McGee from her family and friends.
Though belated, the announcement went down well with the workers both permanent and temporary.
Debra gave me a couple of belated birthday presents -- a large bar of kiwi chocolate and a lovely lovely pendant made of pewter inlaid with paua shell -- and showed me her gifty for cleanskies -- a doll with moving legs which she'd covered with more paua shell on top, and a Louise Brooks bob haircut apparently synthetic hair is difficult to cut so good on you cos it was a great haircut. Mysti/Misty: separated at birth? maybe not.
Such a belated recognition is likely to strike a reader as old news.
Four people eventually managed to zip him into it and he emerged belatedly into the limelight still rippling from his previous endeavour.
The Revolution certainly marked a belated victory for the policy of Exclusion, and finally established the legislative sovereignty of Parliament.
Having known Miss Hamilton for most of his life, he told Hay he had watched her pass from “the sweetness of natural womanhood … through the acetous fermentation of belated virginity into the hard cider of middle age.” The Five of Hearts
Rather belatedly we've got round to The Collection (Chatto & Windus, 25) by Peter Ackroyd, which in Scots might be called a gallimaufry, comprising as it does journalism, book reviews, essays, short stories and lectures.
Kris and I went over to my parents' house last night for a belated birthday party for my sister.
The recent production of the play that used the gay version was a fascinating experiment, not a belated act of justice.
She then quickly called her father-in-law in Swansea and belatedly passed on news which had already been around the world. WalesOnline - Home
Since employees often complain about receiving belated information particular management attention should be given to correct timing.
Along with the big price tag came a belated recognition that a strapped U.S. could not bear the burdens alone.
He did not have before him the example of Taylor's belatedness.
They made a belated attempt to save her life.
They did make a belated attempt to reduce the noise.
After otter hunting was belatedly banned in Britain in 1978, numbers began to increase – particularly following the withdrawal of organochlorine chemicals and a more general improvement in water quality, leading to more fish in rivers and lakes. Otters are back – in every county in England
There are, consequently, those who view her conversion to the cause as belated, possibly opportunistic.
The couple intend to take a belated honeymoon in South America before the fleet sets off on its next leg around Cape Horn.
As it was, she resolved to make one last effort to awaken her unobliging spouse to a belated sense of duty. Baby Mine
In our case, not only were the condolences belated, but we also failed to offer concrete support.
The belated admission that she had financial stake in her pursuits leaves you wondering: Did she really pursue some of the loopier activities she describes because she wanted to test her ideas about wishing? 2008 October « One-Minute Book Reviews
I apologise for the belatedness, because these correspondents were ahead of the curve.
It was a belated birthday present from her family after Alice turned 100 in July.
This is a bit belated, but you can do the symbol(s) for micrometre ( µm ) like this: &_micro_;m (omit the underscores). Scientists Find Water Ice Creates the Spokes in Saturn's B Ring | Universe Today
That went on most of the evening, although we broke for dinner and for more belated presents as the weather got steadily worse.
Why are we 'deliberating' the half-ingested, random, often belated thoughts extruded from committees? DOES YOUR LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WORK?
Declan is the principal of Mount Sion Primary School and his family and friends wish him a belated happy birthday.
The choice isn't between prolonging an idyll and risking change, but between a belated attempt to secure a global niche and a decline into obscurantism likely to end in prolonged violence and general incapability.
Also belated anniversary wishes to William and Paula from all their families; they celebrated 12 years of wedded bliss on 26th November.
As he prepares to market his wares at a sales show, he belatedly discovers that the motel he has chosen in order to save money is a welfare hotel.
Clearing his head of these thoughts, these sad and belated thoughts, Patrick nods towards the cabby. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
They made a belated attempt to save her life.
Fortunately, Crowe's ascent to megastardom has brought at least one of these forgotten films out on DVD for us to enjoy belatedly.
I reveived a belated birthday card this morning.
There may be belated Christmas refreshments after the meeting and to welcome in the New Year.
A belated shrapnel-shot shrieked and burst, and everything grew still.
The move is long overdue and it's mostly belated good news for shareholders.
I reveived a belated birthday card this morning.
A degree of brutalism is justified in the design of this belated memorial. Times, Sunday Times
In 1946, when the war ended and Hawaii about to explode belatedly into the twenties century.
Clearing his head of these thoughts, these sad and belated thoughts, Patrick nods towards the cabby. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
Meanwhile, the government forces under General Cope appeared belatedly to take him on.
She had attached another neurogenic patch to the back of his hand and the Romulan doctor had allowed her to give him a much belated cellular regenerator treatment. Star Trek The Next Generation®
Belated Lohri wishes to you...the pinnies look pretty yum and tempting : Revisiting the old: Pinnies
Currie ended the match with a flourish and belatedly displayed the flair and pace that they undoubtedly possess.
Dressed in a golf shirt, his face the picture of bureaucratic indemnity,Mr. Wang faced an unusually combative news conference during which reporters asked why government workers had hastily buried a damaged rail car rather then preserve it for investigators (it made rescue work easier, he said and why an unconscious 2-year-old girl was found in the wreckage long after officials had abandoned the search for survivors (he called the belated discovery "a miracle. NYT > Home Page
Happy Belated Birthday and thanks for the 'kewl' links ... especially the one with the 'decluttering' questions. Presents! Links For You On My Birthday
Most importantly it is a belated recognition that imperialism offers a fantastically huge and barely mined seam of stories.
Also celebrating his birthday recently was Tony and Olive's son, Glen and we wish him belated greetings.
By the 1970s, when the project was belatedly put in train, it was rightly judged that the effects of the Clean Air Act justified a loose interpretation of this provision.
(belated, that is) (Reply to this) (Thread) ccfinlay Ccfinlay: You say it's your birthday?
So here’s one belated thought about Smith v. Maryland, the 1979 Supreme Court case establishing that pen registers and trap-and-trace devices (which record the numbers dialed from a particular phone and the numbers calling in, respectively) were not Fourth Amendment “searches.” Revisiting Smith v. Maryland
The darkest shadow over the river apportionments was cast by the belated realization that Arthur Powell Davis, in promising that the river would always provide enough water to satisfy all demands, had perpetrated a fraud. Colossus
What real advantages are there to be gained from resurrecting a clapped-out scheme that was halted belatedly in the early 1960s?
I am sorry to hear you're ill on your birthday weekend, and also for the belatedness of this 'happy birthday! Sick :(
The Revolution certainly marked a belated victory for the policy of Exclusion, and finally established the legislative sovereignty of Parliament.
Then it belatedly dawned on me that the report was in the future tense and was written to explain what was due to happen that evening.
Henry VII's belated sale of charters, granting whole communities in north Wales the status of freeborn Englishmen, anticipated the more general emancipation of the Welsh in 1536.
I reveived a belated birthday card this morning.
Bhubaneswar, Nov 02: Asserting that the Orissa and central governments had "failed miserably" to protect Christians from the violence unleashed by Hindu rightwing groups, five top bishops in the state said they were "agonised" by the belated response for help. Zee News : India National
As they descended the stairs, Lord Pomfret emerged from the library, cramming cigarettes into his case with the dishevelling manipulation of the belated swain. Anthony Lyveden
At the end, the grandpas and grandmas were treated with a belated but sumptuous Onam feast which the aged from various day care centres and old age homes in the city enjoyed.
The difference is that Beethoven lifts the upper two notes of the triad, leaving the bass to follow belatedly, while Elgar jacks up the bass first, and the upper notes follow.
a belated birthday card
For this reason, Bachelard refers ironically to Sartre's phenomenology as a belated form of alchemy.
In a belated response to the success of online booksellers in enticing customers to Web sites such as Amazon, two publishers have launched features that allow customers to browse through books online. Science Press Releases
A belated thank you for paying for this year's school fireworks display.
Also, belated greetings to achromatic, and Hippo Birdie Dates to Marilee! Making Light: Open thread 136
Such a belated recognition is likely to strike a reader as old news.
She is married to Anthony and her children, family and friends, wish her a belated happy birthday.
Of course I welcome that, but it is a belated conversion.
Their subsequent revival and belated acceptance into the rock fold was one of the period's more surprising reversals.
Nearly two and a half centuries after the Declaration of Independence, the grievances it adumbrated are belatedly coming true—but in Britain, rather than in North America. A Letter to America
There are, consequently, those who view her conversion to the cause as belated, possibly opportunistic.
Santa Claus even made a belated arrival in the street together with sleigh to entertain the children and give out presents.
Belatedly, it has begun to strike us that this is an unpleasurable and unhealthy way to carry on. Times, Sunday Times
Not until Ramses came to join us did a belated realization of other responsibilities strike me. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
The city administration has made a belated response to the problem of urbanization.
Apologies followed, and at five to three the belated ceremony commenced to the relief of all concerned.
After today's game Duff plans to enjoy a belated birthday meal back in Aberdeen with his parents and girlfriend.
Most importantly it is a belated recognition that imperialism offers a fantastically huge and barely mined seam of stories.
-- lyrical, allusive, unconsoled -- is this sense of belatedness, a mood that is not nostalgia but is instead a kind of unreconciled yearning for the present. Powell's Books: Overview
If you're not hanging out with me on Facebook--most of you who know me are, I think, but presumably there are more of you out there, so sorry about this--you don't know that I have belatedly caught up with the rest of the world and discovered Project Runway, to great joy of discovery and great sadness of belatedness. Archive 2009-04-01
That kind of belatedness isn't explicit in "Credo", but I think Zawacki's particular brand of the conditional -- the violence in not knowing, perhaps -- shares something with deCerteau's words. On poetry: Andrew Zawacki
Unfortunately, the drug companies of the day used the same idea to produce ‘resinoids ‘from the entire materia medica only to belatedly discover these products were totally inert.’
The belated realization came that that might no longer be the case. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
I apologize for my belatedness, but you seemed to have managed just fine on your own.
Belated kudos to ricky p., on that splendid "litotes" analogy. Your Right Hand Thief
So it was that, a belated reader, I came across his lament over our pathlessness, some years after my having had a hand -- or a foot, as you might say -- in the making of a certain cross-lots foot-way which led me to study the windings and turnings of the longer countryside walks until I got the idea of writing Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches
Belated birthday greetings are extended to Daniel Baker who celebrated his 7th birthday on Thursday, September 9.
Belatedly the teacher realized the problem of the name coincidence; she assured the class that there was nothing wrong with playing with dolls, that it teaches both girls and boys how to become parents when they grow up. Failing at FAIRNESS
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Admire the two very belated Birthday cards and the pictures of my dearly beloved and much missed Labrador dog!
They did make a belated attempt to reduce the noise.
With a belated insight he understood suddenly.
Against the darkness the living stood out in sharp relief: Wynne and Zoo with their rainbow-colored auras, methodically reducing the Jeep and its lone Shadowling occupant to scraps; Nansee in deific white making the aged truck move like a sportscar on a straightaway; a yellow-tinged Shadowling fighting a muddy-colored silhouette that Kira belatedly recognized as Khefar. Shadow Chase
Replacing his note-book in his pocket, he called a belated carriage, and hastily gave orders to be taken to the Clifton House. That Mainwaring Affair
The recent production of the play that used the gay version was a fascinating experiment, not a belated act of justice.
Perhaps a man hitched to the cart of a Martian or roasted on the spit by inhabitants of the Milky Way will recall the veal cutlet he used to slice on his dinner plate and apologize (belatedly!) to the cow. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Permanently traumatized by her brutal violation, Urania flees the Dominican Republic for a sterile and wearisome expatriate existence before she belatedly returns one final time to her fatherland.
Meanwhile it is not only competitors who are on the run, and not even the belated efforts to make coaches answerable for the cheating of their athletes.
In addition to the costs of these retirees' benefits, Milwaukee is, to its credit, belatedly starting to prefund the benefits of future school retirees. Oh, To Be a Teacher in Wisconsin
A local income tax would give councils the power to jeopardise Britain's belated conversion to a belief in low direct taxation.
His belated embrace of the me-too politics of health care may have been prompted by political expediency.
Of course, apologies followed, and at five to three the belated ceremony was commenced to the relief of all concerned.
Second, Labour under Mr Kinnock is belatedly making the transition to continental-style social democracy.
Their subsequent revival and belated acceptance into the rock fold was one of the period's more surprising reversals.
Julia belatedly remembered what else she was supposed to do.
With the political integrity, which has become this governments ‘leit motif’, Darling responded belatedly to outrage of our brave lads and lasses were living in badger sets He promised of £80 million of brand new shiny unaccounted-for money. Archive 2007-10-07
These belated returns are often to an Irish deathbed; the family home or graveyard is often in Tóibín's homeland of County Wexford. The Empty Family by Colm Tóibín – Review
The arrival of this belated and bedrenched little party at the lodge created no little surprise; for it had been concluded that, having been led away by a long stalk, or perhaps following a wounded deer into unexpected regions, and finding themselves overtaken by the dark, they had struck across country for the Aivron-Bridge Inn, to pass the night there. Prince Fortunatus
Currie ended the match with a flourish and belatedly displayed the flair and pace that they undoubtedly possess.
And considering that she won the Yehudi Menuhin Competition at age 11, her debut on the Schubert Club's International Artist Series could almost be called "belated. Www.startribune.com
However I belatedly spotted a familiar name when doing a mass delete and managed to pull this one out of the group earmarked for deletion.
Thus, after more than a decade of denouncing water divining, the state belatedly sought to harness it to hydraulic development.
Byron later snags one of the Mormons, who is wallowing in belated guilt for his romp in the land of alternative lifestyles, and stuff him with an LSD-laced hot dog. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
African oasis some surviving mammoth, some belated megatherium, or some gigantic and misshapen liassic saurian. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
The lieutenant, in turn, who knew all the "rules and regulations" by heart, explained that the harbor police were not ferrymen, and that the police-boats had other functions to perform than that of transporting belated and penniless sailor-men to their ships. In Yeddo Bay

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