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

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.

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

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.

May's prime ministership can be usefully understood as a long-running, conscientious attempt to defer the moment when that happens.

"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.

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

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.

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.

"It's a blatant attempt to defer the meeting to a time and place they think will be less contentious". Protest groups such as ReFund California, Occupy Cal and the growing Occupy Cal State movement have recently begun to focus their complaints on regents and trustees who sit on the boards of corporations they accuse of playing a role in the state and nation's financial crisis.

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