Sentence examples for could not be deferred from inspiring English sources

War with Khwārezm would doubtless have come sooner or later, but now it could not be deferred.

He linked the troubles at home to the threats from abroad by suggesting that they collectively posed a challenge that could not be deferred.

Mr. Volcker, appearing with the president, said there were "big economic problems behind the financial system" that could not be deferred, even while more immediate crises were being tackled, a point the president has made repeatedly.

Unlike studies of children's cancer, for example, when parents may have 24 hrs to reflect, consent had to be decided rapidly as treatment could not be deferred.

*P < 0.05, two-tailed test; **P < 0.01, two-tailed test Our results, based on a population-based study, demonstrate that if the use of medical care required was essential and could not be deferred, such as childbirth, the fears of SARS, including both fears of patients and fears of doctors, had a significant influence on patients' preference for provider and on their length of in-patient stay.

Gates, too, couldn't bear being disrespected... he was offended that his exalted status was not being deferred to.

But the question can't be deferred indefinitely.

The final act could not be endlessly deferred.

Protection really was not "an accomplished fact" because wildfire could not be permanently deferred – only changed in character when it inevitably occurred.

The well-off shouldn't be deferring income until 2011.

I once met with a parent who could not be convinced to defer their child's lump sum over a series of years.