Sentence examples for attempt to postpone from inspiring English sources

"Hadn't you better close the door?" Mike said, one last desperate attempt to postpone the inevitable.

It's made me wonder whether I should become some sort of advocate for preservation, in attempt to postpone their inevitable disappearance".

Thus, for each additional capital outlay, the capitalist will receive less and less return and can attempt to postpone his bankruptcy only by applying pressure on the workers.

Others balked at this, seeing it as an attempt to postpone into the far future any major amendments to the sanctions regime.

She also said that she hoped, despite the current security concerns in the United States, that there would be no attempt to postpone or cancel the Games.

Nice try, but perhaps our fear of hair is less to do with practicality and more an attempt to postpone womanhood.

But anyone who says we cannot afford the manufacturing boost it will bring should first take time to needs to understand the employment cost and damage that would be done to the UK's industrial base by cancelling or attempting to postpone it.

The main findings of this study suggest that governments attempting to postpone the legal retirement age should increase the degree of intra-generational redistribution of the pension system in order to make the reform aimed at more easily achievable.

The results suggest that governments attempting to postpone the legal retirement age should increase the degree of intra-generational redistribution of the pension system in order to make the reform aimed at more easily achievable.

But Sir Bobby Charlton, who was one of the England 2018 World Cup bid ambassadors, said the FA's attempts to postpone the voting had left their reputation "slightly" damaged.

Hull FC boosted their hopes of finishing inside the top eight in Super League, defeating Salford in a match that the Red Devils had attempted to postpone earlier in the week.