Then, three weeks before the scheduled opening, the company announced that construction delays had forced a postponement of "Nixon in China" to last Saturday.
A mutiny by several EU states has forced the postponement of a vote in Brussels on relicensing a widely used weedkiller that the World Health Organisation has found is probably carcinogenic.
Financial problems at Parma has forced the postponement of Sunday's Serie A game with Udinese.
And rain has forced the postponement of the men's final from Sunday to Monday for five straight years.
Illness has forced postponement of the Bridge Project, a joint venture involving the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Old Vic theater company of London and the director Sam Mendes.
The de facto government has already forced a postponement of the visit once.
Given the economic downturn, which has forced the cancellation, postponement or prolonging of exhibitions across the country, more small and midsize art institutions may be increasingly open to ready-made shows.
The WRU also has a cash-flow problem, caused primarily by the postponement of its Six Nations match against Ireland because of the foot and mouth crisis, which has forced it to delay its move for the St Helens hooker Keiron Cunningham.
By July 1918, it was clear that the German Spring Offensive on the Western Front, which had forced the postponement of offensive plans in Palestine, had failed, resulting in a return to trench warfare on the Western Front.
