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Sentence Examples They exercised verbal terror against politicians, making them temporize and postpone the solution. They will have to postpone weddings, miss the birth of children, abandon plans to go back to college, and forego taking civilian jobs. This never rose sufficiently to do more than postpone a new phase of intense economic crisis. The veteran French defender had been mulling over a new one-year contract put together to postpone his retirement from football. Some faculty members find the prospect of abruptly ending their academic careers distasteful and choose instead to postpone retirement. Whatever sum you borrow, the amount the bank wants per month will shrink the more you postpone the date of final repayment. Overwhelmed with material today, I shall have to postpone giving her arguments the attention they deserve. Menstruating or post-partum women have to postpone the Tawaaf till they can perform ghusl. David had to postpone any college plans he may have had when his uncle died suddenly. Painting over the rust conceals, but does not postpone, the inevitable collapse of a rotten structure. And to top it all, a moratorium on debt repayments will only postpone the inevitable into the future. In an attempt to postpone the comedown indefinitely, some people become addicts, taking the drug continuously to maintain a permanent high. Indeed, his refusal to postpone elections provided additional evidence, if any were needed, of his cluelessness. I suppose I must postpone the rest of this until I can post again about my experiences as a herdboy. The organising committee reserves the right to postpone or cancel the competition in the event of the weather being too stormy. He knew the third degree was coming, but was hoping to postpone it for a while. At that point, a number of drugs in clinical trials could be administered that may postpone or perhaps prevent the onset of dementia. He had to postpone a previous attempt on the record at Elvington because of technical problems. Why not postpone the constitutional debate for a decade and concentrate on economic reform? Students who want to give birth have to be suspended from college so any student who doesn't want to give up study, has to postpone childbearing. Show More Sentences The student surnamed Zhang decided to postpone employment for a few years by taking up post-graduate studies. However even he had given up hope after Ferguson had rebuffed his many attempts at getting him to postpone his retirement. Otherwise, your in-box will become a catch-all tray where things go when you want to postpone making a decision. But they can postpone the dilution if they add another condition, or contingency, to the standard convertible terms. A Swindon iron man forced to postpone a mammoth 100-mile charity run last year has vowed to give it another shot. A coalition of 40 island states recently blocked an attempt to postpone a major 120-country meeting on climate change. The company today asked the appeals court to postpone issuance of the mandate until the Supreme Court acts. The person who told me this says that there's still time for someone to chicken out and cancel or postpone. I shall have to call to postpone my dental appointment tomorrow and that is a great disappointment. Meanwhile the council is planning to postpone the introduction of recycling schemes for flats. Worries about crime led councillors to postpone a decision on a leisure trail on a former railway. The current tripartite pay agreement allows companies facing economic difficulties to postpone agreed pay increases under certain conditions. At this point, the photographer says, he decided that too many people knew about his trip and so he decided to postpone it. The prerequisite for this is for the U.S. to postpone current efforts for some kind of political transition among Syrians. He has produced a set of seven steps to keep your mind nimble, steps which may even postpone the onset of dementia, but which at least will probably give your mind a lift. Not only would that afford us an unimpeded view of the open sea, the roar of the outboard would also postpone any further discussion on my friend's failed relationship. Nonetheless, the ruling overthrew the agreed ownership composition and forced the joint taskforce to postpone its work on the car project, he said. On that day the Crown invited the court to proceed to pass sentence on both defendants, and to postpone the determination of a confiscation order. If a vendor on the point of selling found an enforcement notice, he could either postpone exchange of contracts or put contracts in escrow until the appeal was brought. Of course, there are always good pretexts to postpone political reform. Show More Sentences But surely a way can be found to postpone the destruction of an invaluable archaeological find. A white out on Friday evening forced the team to postpone the unloading procedure. Cruz would then be forced to postpone the marriage yet again and hit the trail to capture Pearl, now a fugitive from justice. If you are not feeling well, please postpone your visit until you feel better. His first prescription when I saw him was to have the CAT scan test that I had been forced to postpone for a month and a half. Even if you have doubts about the two options, you should not postpone the discussion on these criteria. Robshaw occupied himself in the final seconds before kick off by tying his right bootlace, as if trying to postpone his appointment with destiny. Emergency treatment is treatment that is impossible to postpone or delay without putting the patient's life or health in danger. Do not postpone going to the bathroom, go when your body tells you to and take your time. While awaiting the results of that research, it is appropriate to postpone for debarked wood, the application of the requirement to be used. If we prevaricate and postpone this issue, the Council can continue to hide behind its inaction. It cannot be put off for ever, we cannot postpone things for weeks and months on end and simply wait. Our daily activities consist of a large grey area that inevitably causes us to postpone activities to the next day by procrastinating. If we do not have a clear undertaking on this point by tomorrow, I shall make arrangements to submit to this House a motion to postpone the vote. He has decided to postpone a career in car mechanics for a few years while he puts in time at exec. Therefore, it was decided to postpone this meeting and reconvene it at a date and venue to be communicated by the movements themselves. Helping Somalia to defend and protect itself is our responsibility and an obligation we cannot shirk or postpone under any pretext. The Working Group decided to postpone its next meeting until May 2007, taking into account the postponement of the fourth meeting of the Parties. What I do not want to do is to set a date for a second time and have to postpone it, because that would be calamitous. Instead, the parties decided to postpone the adjournment until after the Commission and the complainant had completed their cases. Show More Sentences Pursuant to discussions, it is unanimously resolved that Council postpone its decision until the end of the meeting after a short adjournment. If the above circumstances do not apply to you, it is advisable to postpone an operation and to look for further non-operative treatment methods. Right now it is important for me to be able to postpone my military training. It is not possible to amend or postpone a course after the date on which a student is due to move into their accommodation or start their course. To postpone it would have delayed taking action and accrued delays, without guaranteeing an improved text. On Tuesday 21 February the Presidency officially requested the DPRK to postpone the ultimatum. You also suggested that it would be more useful for us to postpone our meeting until the summer. Real power is power too potent, too indispensable, to pause or freeze or postpone. Analysts have said the ageing Karimov is trying to postpone a power transition that has recently been complicated by an ugly family feud. How long is the government going to postpone holding a public inquiry into this scandal? They should also be able to postpone the adoption of accompanying measures during that transitional period. An unexpected development was to postpone the planned assault by several weeks. If this budgetary debate were to make this more difficult, we need to have the courage to postpone it. As a result of these consultations, President Kabila decided to postpone the attack against the troops of General Nkunda. The decision whether to postpone or refuse recognition should be left to national law. If you are new to the workforce, you may want to postpone a self-evaluation until you become more comfortable with the workplace and your job. The market might be saturated, but it matters little for these ubiquitous hawkers, who can't even temporarily suspend or postpone their requirements of daily sustenance. Car owners will thus know when to postpone trips, or to pull off the road when a hailstorm is approaching. I've decided to postpone my holiday for a while, for several reasons, the principal one being that I got my bank statement on Saturday and also checked my credit card balance. Why postpone it merely because the National team is on tour. Show More Sentences In such a case we shall be entitled to postpone performance for the duration of the circumstances occasioning the holdup, with the addition of an appropriate period of preparation. This reduction reflects the year's prevailing poor market conditions which forced many investors and developers to postpone certain operations and construction projects. On the lending side, China's ability to sterilize the immense reserve purchases it placed in U. S. markets allowed it to maintain an undervalued currency and postpone rebalancing its own economy. Individuals have had to postpone retirement plans that were made during a ten-year bull market when investment returns and employment conditions were more favourable. We are not rich enough to be able to postpone dealing with this topic. Between June 2006, the date on which question No. 59 was answered, and December 31, 2006, PWGSC amended four leases that were expiring in 2006 to postpone the end date to a subsequent year. Austen was forced to postpone publishing either of these completed novels by family financial troubles. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asked his special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed to postpone the Yemen peace talks. We still need to see if that will happen, or if we need to postpone it. He was also alarmed by the costs that would be incurred, and advised Philip to postpone or abandon it. Wilson and Broccoli were willing to postpone production of the film to ensure Mendes' participation. Because they were unaware of the weather forecast, they did not postpone the trip or plan to remain in the very sheltered fishing area overnight, to return during daylight. The director declined to postpone shooting and cast Kim Novak as the female lead. Instead of actually dealing with the runaway freight train, that is, the expenses of the government, it has postponed decisions and will continue to postpone decisions. Haha, then let's postpone the blind date and move on to my problem. I briefly postpone for now discussion of what difference it makes whether this risk is metaphysical or doxastic in nature. Just today, we saw the Minister of the Environment use sophistry to postpone answering the very simple question put to him: Does he intend to ratify the Kyoto accord, yes or no, and when? Indeed, if they remarry they can postpone it almost indefinitely. Mr Obama's conscious decision to postpone inevitable irritants such as differences over Taiwan, the Dalai Lama and Iran made for some cordiality, but still disputes occurred. It has been argued that the effect of partial transmission control might interfere with this natural process and thus postpone malaria morbidity and deaths until later in childhood and early adulthood. Show More Sentences In mid-July, Beltway pundits got feverishly excited over a report that the administration had asked the Office of Legal Counsel whether it could postpone the presidential election if there were a big terrorist attack. The reaction to the massacre in Poland was strong, but the government decided to postpone revenge against those responsible. Some of the most common reasons are to postpone childbearing to a more suitable time or to focus energies and resources on existing children. Sundance Selects has the option to postpone the US release of Blue for a year in the hope that it will be shortlisted for the 2015 Oscars, but it is unlikely to want to wait that long. Also, his son was far away, making it desirable to postpone the burial until he could return-which was sure to extend beyond the talents of the morticians. For weeks, at the mercy of the vagaries of racing and wind, the crew had to plan and postpone and replan impromptu daily parties for 100 people or more in a club with no kitchen. And yet most of us postpone considering our own death until forced to by illness, old age, a near death experience, or the death of a friend or relative. Indeed, the majority of human cultures postpone formal acceptance of a child, such as a naming ceremony, until a commitment has been made to rear it. Paul Wilson Neymar had proved his luminousness yet again – discounting Portugal, perhaps no other country relies as heavily on its star – and even Fred, onside or not, was about to postpone a doubt or two. Where the defendant has not appointed a defense attorney, or the attorney is not present in Court, the court must postpone the hearing until one or the other failing may be achieved. Although they wax lyrical about the role of local authorities in globalisation, local leaders all too often use administrative reasons as an excuse to postpone their commitment. This will require commitment, energy and time from every well-disposed person and association, but we must not postpone it or the very undoing of our way of life could begin. Due to constraints related to the organisation of interpreting services, requests to postpone the date of a hearing are granted only in very exceptional circumstances. Roosevelt to postpone the promised invasion as, even with American help, the Allies did not have adequate forces for such an activity. Beset, like many New Yorkers, with feelings of helplessness and superfluousness, Mr. Zwirner decided to postpone the next exhibition at his gallery and instead organize a show to benefit the victims. And Linda B. Rosenthal, a Manhattan assemblywoman who has sponsored a vacancy decontrol bill, said setting a higher threshold would only postpone the loss of rent-stabilized units. They opposition members are slowing down and watering down and doing everything they can to postpone the proposals to strengthen our criminal justice system. Not surprisingly, the move to beatify Pius XII alongside John XXIII in 2000 provoked a storm of controversy that may have contributed to the decision to postpone Pius's beatification. The 22,000-tonne aircraft carrier, nicknamed the Lusty Lady of the seas, had to postpone her visit yest erday. Why not postpone the distribution of dividends? Show More Sentences Representatives of this species occasionally postpone leaving ice-encrusted waters in order to take advantage of accumulated plankton on chosen feeding grounds. Hōjō's daughter also succumbed to Yorimoto's blandishment but had to postpone marriage until 1180, when her official fiancé, the pro-Taira acting governor, had been eliminated. Can capital controls protect countries like China from global market forces, or do controls simply postpone adjustment and misallocate resources? It therefore agreed to postpone their discussion to its next meeting. Following several court hearings, the Supreme Court decided to postpone its decision with regards to the petition and allowed the State more extensions for the purpose of completing all the necessary legislative amendments. If it is cold at the time of shooting, it may be best to postpone the disembowelling and also the skinning of the carcass to avoid the meat temperature falling too quickly. And what can a man do to prevent or postpone its arrival? Allaying some earlier concerns, the IMF programme will allow the government to postpone most of the inevitable tightening of fiscal policy until the economy comes out of its expected deep trough. The new trust's terms do not postpone the vesting of trust principal beyond the perpetuities period applicable to the original trust. I also decided to postpone the Voyer translation until I had publicly settled accounts with the hugely accumulated irresolutions of my old activity. In each camp the presidential desires of the big and small candidates dissimulate the problems under a chaste veil and postpone to a later date the decisions that are liable to irritate the French. The decision to postpone release should set a new date for release. The deferral allows eligible producers to postpone income tax on the sale of breeding stock for one year to help replenish breeding stock in the following year. If a national currency's exchange corridor is widened with respect to the euro, then inflation, which is already high, may gain ground and further postpone the entry of the new Member States into the euro area. Saad said that he wanted to quit one week before but decided to postpone it until his interview with Abdul Hakeem. The loss of these barges may have contributed to Hitler's decision to postpone Operation Sea Lion indefinitely. Pharmacologic treatment of prehypertension may prevent or postpone the development of hypertension. That Mahatma Gandhi preferred to call off his mass movement and postpone the independence of India rather than compromise with violence at Chauri Chaura gives us the right to say this. John was forced to postpone his own invasion plans to counter this threat. Some scholars think Charles decided to abdicate after a gout attack in 1552 forced him to postpone an attempt to recapture the city of Metz, where he was later defeated. Show More Sentences At the same time, a strategy of peasantization might reduce or postpone the more acute social and political conflicts which are inherent in the process of marginalization. If something is a postponable purchase, you'll probably postpone it. Feuer asked to postpone the postcarding because of the rain. The SCU decided to further postpone student union elections to next year. Examples from Classical Literature The jailor decided that he could safely postpone his visit to Fandor's cell. If we postpone our mince pie, it is often snatched from us and we never get it at all. Should she postpone it or should she let the boy take all of his hurts together? He would postpone the advocation for a few days, but it could not be refused. When the desire for defecation comes, we are too busy and postpone it until some more convenient time, which time may be too late. In such a time, there is no occasion for us to postpone our demands for democratization. If thou wilt not postpone the duma, then the peril will be upon thine own head! He therefore made up his mind to postpone the instructorship for a year and go abroad once more. I have reasons that I cannot now explain, for all I do, and all I postpone. The vote on Mr. witcher's motion to postpone the whole subject indefinitely, indicates the true state of opinion in the House. By converting the peasants into a petite bourgeoisie, it threatened to postpone to an indefinite date the triumph of Socialism. Nor is it advisable to postpone mechanical interference so long that eburnation of the bones has time to take place. My answer to this imputation I postpone to the concluding pages of my Volume. In their alarm, the pensionary, Vesembeck, was sent to entreat the ministers to postpone their exercises. And if I do obtain it, will postpone my appointment with Mr. Lovelace. Well, we will have to postpone our lesson in literature until afterwards. Another circumstance which decided him to postpone pursuit of the Arabs was the painfulness of his wound. You will then, pardon me, Alice, should I diminish your enjoyments, by requesting this gentleman to postpone his chant until a safer opportunity. A depleted bank account had caused me to postpone my holiday, and as to my companion, neither the country nor the sea presented the slightest attraction to him. We shall still postpone our existence, nor take the ground to which we are entitled, whilst it is only a thought and not a spirit that incites us. Find more words! 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