Sentence examples for keep deferring from inspiring English sources

State politicians seem either unable or unwilling to agree on a budget and keep deferring it for fear of having to reveal the truth of their fiscal problems.

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.

Only the opposition and curmudgeonly economists played party-poopers, stubbornly demanding to know how long his government can keep deferring a serious effort to plug the cavernous hole in its finances.Mr Singh played his innings against distracting background noises.

It gave corporations the one-time tax break on foreign profits, estimated by J.P. Morgan Chase to total about $418 billion, but it allowed companies to keep deferring taxes in the future.

As he pursues legislation, why does he keep deferring to others — whether to his party's Congressional leaders or the Congressional Budget Office or to this month's acting president, Olympia Snowe?

Senators Hillary Clinton of New York and Patty Murray of Washington were snookered once when they accepted a written assurance by the Bush administration that a decision would be made soon — only to find out later that the decision was to keep deferring the decision.

During the ovation she kept deferring to and applauding Mr. Currier.

On territory that was not his to command, Amis kept deferring to greater experts.

"We kept deferring doing things to this floor, because we said by 2004 this hall would be torn down," Mehta said with a rueful shrug.

Take Representative John Carter for example, who the other members of the Appropriations Committee affectionately call "Judge" and kept deferring to in the hearing for his supposed wisdom.

I was excited by the idea of a living infographic, though I didn't know what that might be and I kept deferring figuring it out, hoping an idea would fall out of the sky.