1.   A dispute over a proposal to make major changes in criminal sentencing laws widened on Tuesday, threatening to delay passage of the state budget yet another week.

2.   But Republican opponents in the House, led by a group of conservative Californians, thwarted that effort by threatening to delay passage of the stopgap spending bill.

3.   Disagreements on revenue projections often delay budget passage.

4.   No defendants in pending courts-martial are facing a possible death penalty, Dwight Sullivan said, but that is no reason to delay passage of the legislation.

5.   Palestinians also accused Israel of causing the death of newborn twins by delaying the passage of the mother to the hospital when she was in labor.

6.   Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., attacked business for its opposition to that provision and said he would try to delay passage.

7.   Such partisan fighting will delay passage, he said.

8.   Taking the long way round, while probably safer, is also very likely to delay the passage to Cape Town.

9.   That possibility and other vagaries concern Catholic university presidents and some Catholic theologians who lobbied to delay passage of the new guidelines.

10.   That will delay passage and possibly kill it.