But he adds: "In practice, the political momentum behind the programme is so strong that a further significant postponement does not appear likely".
He had promised a radical overhaul and a new prime minister to inject momentum into a programme of reforms which French voters have seen as doing little to improve salaries and poor purchasing power.
The way he'd turned this time of year into simply the inevitable guarenteed payoff to the flaming momentum his talent programme had generated must have even been boring him.
In the ED participants reported a sense of dilution and loss of momentum since the programme: Nothing we thought we wanted to do has been introduced or developed in any way, shape or form.
As the programme gained momentum, Norman gradually sloughed off his other journalistic commitments.
However we view the risk of deteriorating operational newsflow as high, especially in the second half as Virgin Media's network expansion programme gains momentum, Sky enters the mobile arena, and Vodafone makes deeper in-roads into consumer fixed.
In getting the lower house of Congress to vote in January for a constitutional amendment allowing him to stand for a second term next year, the president appeared not only to have all but ensured himself of power until the end of 2002 but to have won vital momentum for his legislative programme aimed at modernising Brazil.It has proved short-lived.
Bimlendra Jha, chief executive of Tata Steel UK, said: "As a responsible seller, Tata Steel is delighted to have secured a buyer for this business and we hope that under Greybull Capital ownership, the business will continue the momentum of the improvement programme that has been initiated in the last 12 months".
As the US space programme loses momentum with the retirement of the space shuttle, those of Ghana and Nigeria are just taking off.
The Representative expressed the willingness of UNICEF to keep the momentum within the new programme of cooperation.
The PMTCT programme gained momentum in 2008 when the revised guidelines that incorporated routine opt-out testing offer came into effect.
