In July 1899 Mackay belatedly joined brothers Alex and Frank White to become the first men to travel around the continent of Australia on a bicycle.

This prevented Morard de Galles and Hoche from belatedly joining their squadron and took them away from the route back to France.

The Holkar rulers of Indore belatedly joined the fray and compelled the British to make peace.

With the suit, the state belatedly joined a longstanding effort, spearheaded by federal prosecutors, to crack down on certain drug-pricing practices.

In the end, Colt stepped down, possibly due to ill-health, and Wetmore was reelected to belatedly join the 60th Congress in January 1908.

New York, which until recently has been reluctant to embrace H.M.O.'s, is belatedly joining a national trend.

Instead of belatedly joining the Ottawa Convention to ban mines, we seem determined to walk away from it.

Several Beatles songs that were written chiefly by Lennon have been among the group's most active in the three weeks since the band belatedly joined the digital revolution.

As one of its first acts, the group belatedly joined Western writers in condemning the death sentence pronounced on Salman Rushdie by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

He laughed loudly, and Ben belatedly joined him, realizing it was the only way one escaped notice in a bar filled with drink fueled merriment.