51.   The news media blamed Microsoft for delaying the trial, saying that if the company simply stopped objecting to opening the depositions, they could proceed.

52.   The pleading was rejected by an appeals court, but not before delaying the trial for months.

53.   The prosecutor, George Peck, insists that Ferguson has exaggerated his injuries to delay his trial.

54.   The trial had been delayed as prosecution and defense lawyers clashed endlessly over whether or not Gigante was mentally ill and unfit to be tried.

55.   The trial has been delayed for six years because of courtroom battles over his mental and physical fitness to stand trial.

56.   The trial has been delayed while a federal judge considers defense claims that the FBI authorized criminal activity by Bulger and Flemmi, who also was an FBI informant.

57.   Their goal is to delay the trial until after the hand-over, when it would be heard by a Chinese court.

58.   They kept delaying the trial until I personally went to the state Supreme Court judge, after which he ordered that the case be heard.

59.   This will allow the government to delay the trial of Khmer Rouge guerrilla chief Ta Mok.

60.   Those comments set the stage for a possible appeal that could delay the trial.