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The phrase "applied for a postponement" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a formal request to delay an event or deadline.
Example: "She applied for a postponement of the hearing due to unforeseen circumstances."
Alternatives: "requested a delay" or "sought a deferral."
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It's three journeys, three hotels paid for, three bus journeys paid for so it's been an expensive trip this time". The Scottish Professional Football League said in a statement Hearts applied for the postponement as the majority of their first-team squad were affected by injuries or illness and they had only one fit goalkeeper over the age of 16.
In addition, one conscript applied for postponement of the service during the first two weeks and one patient record was missing.
Member states could apply for further postponement of introduction of the 48 h work-week until August 2012 at the latest, but it is still possible for member states to apply their national legislation, also, when it allows for more than 48 h work-weeks for doctors.
MORRIS was ready for a postponement.
Will there be another call for a postponement?
The court date was a mere formality — a request for a postponement.
France and Germany want to ram through controversial new rules after turning down British pleas for a postponement.
Before the stay of execution, former US president Jimmy Carter repeated his appeal for a postponement.
Before this announcement there had been considerable clamour for a postponement of the election.
Calls for a postponement have been angrily rejected by the government in Khartoum.
"The lack of a primary is a very good-government reason for a postponement," he said.
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