Now he wants to stall — and perhaps cancel — one of the most important transportation projects in the country: a new railway tunnel under the Hudson River linking New Jersey and Midtown Manhattan.
So would you or I. (The difference is that the G-8 leaders would then hold a televised press conference to spotlight their compassion, perhaps canceling their session on humanitarian aid to do so).
So, last Thursday, when morning flights to London and Honolulu were both delayed by more than eight hours because of mechanical problems, her staff quickly rounded up bags that had already been checked, knowing some passengers would switch flights or perhaps cancel their trip altogether.
They discussed stopping pocket money, grounding him, or perhaps cancelling promised treats.
The bids for the infrastructure have prompted some analysts to suggest that rather than selling its infrastructure and becoming a pure service-provider, it would make more sense for BT to sell its retail operation and concentrate on being a pure infrastructure provider (perhaps cancelling the wireless spin-off, too).
We must use our critical ability to re-read history and distinguish between, on the one hand, what has been and has been passed down to us that is of value and must be maintained and enhanced and, on the other, what should be forgotten and perhaps even cancelled out.
Would they actively shape (and perhaps even cancel) those categories?
The league wants them to approve a labor deal this week — under the threat of a worse deal and perhaps a canceled season.
Up to the moment of the first critics' preview, rumors persisted that the show would be postponed or perhaps even canceled altogether.
Some of the most highly promoted missions on NASA's scientific agenda would be postponed indefinitely or perhaps even canceled under the agency's new budget, despite its administrator's vow to Congress six months ago that not "one thin dime" would be taken from space science to pay for President Bush's plan to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars.
