Sentence examples for attempt to defer from inspiring English sources

"anti-Zionist"); a repudiation of therapy (old news chez von Trier); a revulsion at parenthood; and a generalized sense (rendered as a specific visual metaphor in Vol. II) that any attempt to defer or deflect immediate sexual gratification is a mortification that leads swiftly to a total monastic repudiation of life itself.

Sir Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, has waded in to the row over bonuses at Goldman Sachs, warning it would be "rather clumsy" and "lacking in care" of big banks to attempt to defer bonuses to allow highly paid bankers to pay a lower rate of tax.

The company just slashed the prices of those add-ons, too, likely in an attempt to defer customers from leaving for YouTube.

The Kenyan government's attempt to defer the cases at the ICC by appealing to members of the UN Security Council failed without being voted on, however the government, represented by British lawyers Geoffrey Nice and Rodney Dixon, have subsequently applied directly to the Court.

Even today, if you look at the tallies of youngsters who have applied for "Deferred Action" (President Obama's compassionate attempt to defer deportation for young people who were brought to this country by their parents), Europeans are in eighth place on the list of all applicants.

Attempt to defer student loan payments for a period until you are working again.

Contact your financial aid office if you are seeking an in-school deferment or attempting to defer a Perkins loan.

There are regular, furtive attempts to defer various pleasures, a consistent and fascinating theme.

There were marathon pauses, mystified looks, the beating of the table to emphasise a point, and several attempts to defer to James – all denied by Watson.

The decision to defer an earlier attempt to arrest him was made by Cressida Dick, an assistant commissioner of Scotland Yard who was in charge of the operation that ended with the shooting.

The European Union and the United States agreed Tuesday to defer pursuing complaints with the World Trade Organization while they attempt to settle their dispute over subsidies to Airbus and Boeing through bilateral talks.