Sentence examples for a week's postponement from inspiring English sources

Minsk handymen are not known for speed, but within hours they had welded shut the gates to his house.After America and other countries complained (and threatened to withdraw their ambassadors from Minsk), the government grudgingly offered a week's postponement, but insisted the eviction must then go ahead.

Seth Mydans PAKISTAN: SHARIF PROSECUTION ENDING -- The prosecution said it planned to finish its hijacking and attempted murder case today against the deposed prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, but Mr. Sharif's lawyers said they might ask the court for a week's postponement to prepare their case, delaying the hearing of statements from the seven accused in the case.

The reason given for the week's postponement was Azumah Nelson's fatigue.

Ripken's final game was originally set to be played at Yankee Stadium; however, the September 11 , 2001attacks led to the postponement of a week's worth of games.

There are already plans in motion, both by the team and by fans themselves, to help out the concession, ticket, security and other employees losing more than half a week's worth of work to the postponements and cancellations.

After early classics that felt like exhibitions, nonconference mismatches that seemed like scrimmages and a week of postponements in the wake of terrorism, the sport found sharper definition.

Taking advantage of a week-long postponement due to the assassination of President Kennedy, Verna arranged for an Ampex 1000 tape machine weighing more than half a tonne to be transported from CBS in New York to Philadelphia Municipal Stadium.

And so I agreed to a year's postponement.

Amid scattered violence, Nigerians went to the polls Saturday to elect a president, a week after a jarring postponement of the vote was announced just five hours before polling stations had been due to open.

The digit that the guitarist Jimmy Page fractured, forcing a two-week postponement of Led Zeppelin's reunion concert, was his left pinky.

The A's protested the postponement, to no avail.