Patrick M. Byrne, chief executive of the online retailer Overstock.com, said his company was talking about accepting bitcoin, but it decided to pause its plans until legal matters around the currency were clarified.
"If I was Chris Grayling, I would have looked at the appeal figures and decided to pause the process," he adds.
Rather than push through, the ever-cautious McClellan, perhaps justified in this instance, decided to pause.
Congress decided to pause for two months on the $110 billion in mandated spending cuts set to take effect in 2013.
Shell, meanwhile, decided to "pause" its drilling projects in the Alaskan Arctic, which have so far found no oil.
Ron Fouchier, a virologist who conducted the research at Erasmus Medical Center, explained why he and his colleagues decided to pause the research.
Black said that the problem was "straightforward," but that Actelion had decided to pause and take its time.
In this case, many assume, ministers have decided to pause, listen and reflect, then scrape the lot into the bin.
Mr. Grill, below, decided to pause his brief career as a composer when his son was born in 1981 and try a more conventional career.
The prime minister told that meeting he, and not the Lib Dem leader and deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, had decided to pause the bill.
