Sentence examples for his postponement from inspiring English sources

But there had also been worry and speculation that Mr. Jackson was not physically ready for such an arduous run of concerts, and his postponement of the first of those shows to July 13 from July 8 fueled new rounds of gossip about his health.

Then for Race 6, Jimmy Spithill, Oracle Team USA's skipper, pulls out his postponement card, which will end the day's racing.

Between his feckless dashing about Washington like a barely housebroken Scooby-Doo and his postponement of more open hearings that might further reveal the administration's culpability, he has done his best to obfuscate and obstruct.

American officials said they were worried by reports that say Tehran is harboring Al Qaeda members. 1 Afghan King Remains in Rome Afghanistan's exiled former king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, postponed his return to his homeland after 29 years less than 72 hours before his scheduled arrival in Kabul, his second postponement in a week.

If the spirit of his age resides in him, his long postponement of an infamous album has diluted that spirit somewhat.

The new pope, Gregory IX (1227 41), excommunicated Frederick for his repeated postponements and his alleged abuse of the rights of Sicilian churches during papal vacancies.

His repeated postponements of his departure for the East, granted by a cooperative Honorius, ultimately prevented him from joining the Crusade.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., writing about Franklin D. Roosevelt, said that the "more serious complaint against him was his weakness for postponement," but also that "his caution was always within an assumption of constant advance".

In a statement about the Royal Albert Hall postponement, his record label, Parlophone, said, "Peter was very much looking forward to the show and would like to offer his sincerest apologies to all his fans and all those concerned".

His budget would put "fuel in the tank of the British economy", he declared, ensuring no one could miss what had been the climax and chief surprise in his speech: a postponement in a planned rise in fuel duty coupled with a 1p cut, to be felt at the pumps that very evening.

The Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is adamant that his eleventh hour postponement of the cull is just that and it will still go ahead - albeit a year later than originally planned.