Sentence examples for defer passage from inspiring English sources

In October 1975, the Opposition used its control of the Senate to defer passage of appropriation bills, which finance governmental operations and which had been passed by the House of Representatives.

Erasmus, on the other hand, viewed the sacred text as complex and unclear on many important points and insisted that when a passage gives rise to conflicting interpretations, the reader must ultimately defer to the consensus of the whole Christian community through the many centuries of Christian history.

Even the hyper-accurate atomic clocks now used to record the passage of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the globe's official standard, regularly defer to the addition of so-called leap seconds.

I defer.

"Don't defer and defer and defer," recommended Gaitskell.

People defer to her.

Lead or defer.

"We defer to them".

Er, I'll defer.

To defer paying.

Injuries defer harder choices.