Sentence examples for motion to postpone from inspiring English sources

The opening session of the hearing was dominated by procedural matters and a defense motion to postpone the hearing for nearly a month.

A state district judge has refused a defense motion to postpone the murder trial of Terry L. Nichols, which is scheduled to begin Monday.

Mr. Dunn, of the civil liberties union, said that Commissioner Cohen had been giving a deposition when the dispute over the documents arose, and the judge granted a city motion to postpone the deposition.

A judge refused today to delay the deposition of Cardinal Bernard F. Law in civil suits stemming from the sexual abuse crisis in the clergy, and sharply rebuked church lawyers for their last-minute motion to postpone it.

The Sun praised the FA for a "principled stand", after the English motion to postpone the ballot in which Mr Blatter stood unopposed failed by 172 votes to 17 (or arguably 16, following press reports that one of England's allies, Vietnam, had voted for postponement by mistake).

Update: Unfortunately for the FCC, the judge has denied its motion to postpone.

There was a successful motion to indefinitely postpone the passing of the bill, but it still exists in a filing cabinet in the basement of the Indiana statehouse, waiting for a gullible politician to resuscitate it.

A state appellate panel denied a motion yesterday seeking to postpone the divorce trial of former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and his wife, Donna Hanover.

That filing came just four days before a scheduled public hearing on the implementation of the decree, and a Maryland federal court denied the motion, stating that to postpone the hearing "would be to unduly burden and inconvenience the Court, the other parties, and, most importantly, the public".

Initially Jackson and his lawyers filed a motion for Superior Court Judge David M. Rothman to postpone the civil case until the criminal investigation was concluded.

While the judge, Col. James Pohl of the Army, expressed skepticism about the legitimacy of the defense's fears, he agreed to postpone a scheduled pretrial-motions hearing for a day so the defense lawyers could finish interviews with audio technology officials who will be called on Tuesday to testify about the audio systems at the military prison and courtroom at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.