Sentence examples for defer work from inspiring English sources

But these aren't reasons to defer work on living wills.

The chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Kent Conrad, announced Thursday that the panel would indefinitely defer work on a budget for the coming fiscal year.

Michael Griffin says he plans to scale back space station research, defer work on a future Mars robotic mission, inject more cash into NASA's struggling Earth science effort, and back a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa using conventional rather than nuclear propulsion.

Update: Diamond met his client's request, deferring work for the holiday and completing the job the next day.

But Mr. Ozzie's company, concentrating on the Windows world, has deferred work on an Apple version.

The problem, a review panel concluded last November, is that an unreasonably low budget and poor management by NASA forced the program to keep deferring work to subsequent years, which drives up costs.

Bigger savings, Griffin says, would come from deferring work on human exploration technologies, reducing the number of contractors involved in building a new human exploration vehicle, and scaling back the Prometheus nuclear propulsion system championed by his predecessor Sean O'Keefe (Science, 30 January 2004, p. 614).

May I defer starting work if I am selected for an Ullman Fellowship?

"Where I can defer some work [or] not make a final commitment, I am doing that," he told the audience.

The California Independent System Operator may ask power-plant owners to defer maintenance work on Monday to ensure sufficient supplies, Ms. O'Donley said.

They put off doctor visits, immunizations for their kids, defer dental work, and skip other needed care.