Sentence examples for Put off a request from inspiring English sources

In a mixed decision in the Elian Gonzalez case, a federal appeals court today put off a request by the boy's father to serve as his sole legal representative, which would have effectively ended the court challenge.

A20 A federal appeals court put off a request by Elian's father to serve as his sole legal representative, but granted him the right to intervene in the battle over whether his son goes back to Cuba or stays here.

Meanwhile, he said, he has asked the U.S. Senate to put off a vote on his request for an authorization of military force to let the diplomacy play out.

So Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, agreed to Republican requests to put off a Wednesday meeting to consider the treaty.

Mr. Barzani said one reason he agreed to put off a referendum on the regional Constitution that was to have been held during Saturday's elections was a request this month from Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other American officials.

A person who is ordered deported by the Immigration and Naturalization Service has 90 days to file a court appeal and that deadline is not put off by a request for the INS to reconsider.

Japan and its resolution's co-sponsors, Britain, France and the United States, have been putting off a vote this week at the request of China, which said action by the Council would interfere with a Chinese diplomatic mission now in North Korea.

First, the actress put off the request by noting that she didn't expect to win for best actress in "The Theory of Everything". And she hadn't prepared a speech.

You weren't put off by our request to add a window.

This can be an instant put off.

"I was just a little bit put off.