Sentence examples for a postponement that from inspiring English sources

Reuven Rivlin, a Likud lawmaker, said Mr. Netanyahu, if he intends a comeback, should "return to activity immediately and put an end to this whispering campaign and to a postponement that could cause the Likud serious damage".

She recalls various conversations with Blair and concludes that he seemed to have been manipulating her, making promises to keep her on side and to delay her resignation, a postponement that damaged her credibility.

Fallon was forced to rule out making any coalition deal with the Liberal Democrats over Trident, even though the 2010 coalition agreement between the two parties said they would delay the "main gate" decision until 2016, a postponement that the then defence secretary Liam Fox said had cost the Treasury £1.4bn.

After a second postponement, that vote is now scheduled for Dec. 6; the rival bidders say they will bring their fully financed and detailed offer to Reckson on Dec. 4.

In another postponement that threatens the privatization of the Sao Paulo state bank Banespa, Brazil's Superior Tribunal of Justice referred a decision over the constitutionality of the sale to a higher court.

"Instead of a decision, we were given a postponement, one that is not necessarily in our favor," he said.

President Khatami and other reformers had asked for a postponement so that the hard-line Guardian Council, a 12-member panel that reviews candidates, might allow more candidates to run.

This was not intentional, but it so resembles a classic logical paradox on postponement, that I can't resist making that the subject of this post.

Former president Jimmy Carter repeated his appeal for a postponement, saying that "Georgia should not violate its own prohibition against executing individuals with seriously diminished capacity".

"Her office contacted my office and asked for a postponement, and that's what we did.

At his one-day trial on Monday, Rangel was reduced to pleading for a postponement – arguing that his lawyers abandoned him after he paid them some $2 million but could afford no more.