Sentence examples for obtained a postponement from inspiring English sources

Late last month, China obtained a postponement of the debate, saying that the events at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq had changed its thinking, and it could no longer rule out a veto.

But word of the impending ban seemed to have spread through every hill and dale in the foothills of the Poconos, so the neighboring towns in New Jersey and New York -fearful that Milford's one million trucks a year would begin rumbling through their communities - obtained a postponement and re-evaluation of the Route 209 ban.

But the other route, depending as it does on mass defections, is bound to look sleazy, and may well not work.General Musharraf has now succeeded in obtaining a postponement of the opening of parliament, though it is not clear if that will be enough.

Prosecutors later obtained another 120-day postponement and now want more time, as the administration grapples with how to deal with the remaining detainees and close the detention center by January.

But a postponement appears unlikely.

It proved only a postponement.

Judge John F. Keenan granted a postponement until Wednesday.

Neither player requested a postponement.

They were seeking a postponement.

MORRIS was ready for a postponement.

First, he has reminded everyone that "the postponement of tapering is only that, a postponement".