'deferment' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of postponing something or the process of allowing someone to postpone something. For example, "My bank has allowed me to request a deferment on my loan payments for the next few months".
It is not the case that the will can choose to defer regardless of what the intellect decides, or that the will can choose to defer even if the intellect has judged deferment to be less good than some other course of action.
Inevitably, the deferment system has become a central issue in the election campaign.
In the words of Lee Kuan Yew, former prime minister of Singapore and a keen advocate of Asian values, the Chinese family encouraged "scholarship and hard work and thrift and deferment of present enjoyment for future gain".On the face of it his claim appears persuasive still.
Theological study followed, and when the draft came in 1940, he was eligible for deferment.
They cannot work for their living, for fear of forfeiting their draft deferment.
He went to war in 1939, getting hurt in Poland, while Wieland was given a deferment for his genius.
The ultra-Orthodox tell the Labour leader, Mr Barak, who stands against deferment, that he will have to do without their votes on election day, and without their support in subsequent coalition-making.The ultra-Orthodox, though politically powerful, are alone and unpopular in their defence of deferment.
It embodies a set of virtues—"learning and scholarship and hard work and thrift and deferment of present enjoyment for future gain"—which, he said, underpins Asia's economic success.
That would give time to build the hybrid UN-AU force in Darfur up to its full authorised strength of 26,000 personnel.But civil-liberties groups and legal experts argue that such a deferment, which could be renewed indefinitely, would mean giving in to Mr Bashir's blackmail.
The abstract nature of credit cards, coupled with the deferment of payment that they promise, may modulate the "con" side of the calculation in favour of the "pro".Whether it actually does so will be the subject of further experiments that the three researchers are now designing.
The advantage of accelerated amortization for tax purposes lies in the deferment of taxes rather than in their reduction.
