It would still allow states to determine the timing of their own primaries, while giving them some incentive to hold primaries later.

In such cases, genes determine the timing of the environmental impact.

The lander's on-board computer used redundant on-board accelerometers to determine the timing of the parachute inflation.

It can also be used as a scheduling algorithm to determine the timing of transmissions that will comply with the limits set for the bandwidth and burstiness: see network scheduler.

Various aspects of maturation and development are under genetic control, which determines the timing for critical periods for certain capacities (i.e. polygenic inheritance).

But it might not be ideal timing, as the police are on the wrong track, and there's a lot of action and revelations which set up next week's finale nicely.

It was not exactly ideal timing.

Ideal timing occurs in the spring.

The cash problems will call into question the timing of the privatisation.

They want to discuss stocking his label, though some may question the timing.

A source questioned the timing of the leak from the committee.

However, experts questioned the timing of the study as oil prices began to fall last week.

What's more, though the cold blast was seen as unusually severe, few questioned the timing because people expected winters to be much longer and harder than now.

The game was decided when the final three seconds were replayed after a timing error.

A timing error of just one-thousandth of a second will translate into a distance error of 200 miles.

Sales of disc 2 of the series were affected by a subtitle timing error, which was corrected on subsequent reprints.

However, it was later discovered that a timing error had added over an hour to the match, that in reality lasted 4 hours and 24 minutes.

A swirling wind, with gusts of some strength, meant that some timing errors were inevitable.

The camera's internal exposure timing mechanism disengages below the 1/2 second setting.

Species that move short distances, however, may not need such a timing mechanism, instead moving in response to local weather conditions.

Meters were soon relocated inside the taxi, and in the 1980s electronic meters were introduced, doing away with the once-familiar ticking sound of the meter's timing mechanism.

As a timing mechanism, detonation cord detonates at a very reliable rate (about 7,0008,000 m/s), enabling engineers to control the pattern in which charges are detonated.

Because of this the timing mechanism became inaccurate and just when the explosives attached to the ship blew, a tugboat came by and managed to haul the wreck to land.

Unfortunate timing for the transport supremo to be on the piste.

But unfortunate timing meant it hit the beginning of the downturn in global stock markets.

It proved to be unfortunate timing as the dot-com bubble burst within months.

How's this for unfortunate timing.

Investors have been irritated by the failure to pull off a couple of large deals and by the unfortunate timing of the shale gas purchase.