Sentence examples for long postponement from inspiring English sources

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

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

IPOs are often delayed, of course, but for a government that prides itself on smooth execution, a long postponement could be embarrassing.

I predict legal intervention, litigation and a long postponement of official results.

After discussion with the family, U2 went forward with its 2005 2006 Vertigo Tour, but with changed scheduling, reduced dates, and a long postponement of the final leg, all to enable Edge to get home more often.

Morocco had sought a year-long postponement, citing the danger of the virus spreading at large gatherings.

Taking advantage of a week-long postponement due to the assassination of President Kennedy, Verna arranged for an Ampex 1000 tape machine weighing more than half a tonne to be transported from CBS in New York to Philadelphia Municipal Stadium.

It appears about 90 percent certain that a lockout will postpone the start of the N.H.L. season, so the next question is how long that postponement will last.

Neither Google nor any unnamed source claiming to speak on Google's behalf have said how long the postponement will last.

No, he who has said 'a day' has granted too long a postponement to swift misfortune; an hour, an instant of time, suffices for the overthrow of empires.

Focusing specifically on women in their 20s reveals that their two-decades-long increasing postponement of first marriage, often attributed to their simultaneous surge into higher education (Forbes, Dec. 16, 1996), may indeed be stalling (see chart).