Democratic members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee postponed drafting an amendment to an appropriations bill for emergency aid to Panama and Nicaragua that would have conditioned further military aid to El Salvador on improvements in human rights.
The situation improved on Wednesday, when assistant provost-marshal-general Robert Nugent received word from his superior officer, Colonel James Barnet Fry, to postpone the draft.
Peppered with questions about the legislation, the committee's chairman, Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, has postponed a drafting session that was to have begun early next week.
The plan to call a vote – announced abruptly on Wednesday evening by Egypt, which had been drafting the resolution – was postponed indefinitely a few hours ahead of the planned security council meeting on Thursday afternoon.
The fallout from that is rippling into the N.F.L. at the moment, with the league postponing its supplemental draft while it figures out whether it should include the exiled Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor.
Small news pieces about the everyday effects of the epidemic appeared frequently: entrance examinations to the universities were postponed, the army draft was deferred, theaters were closed, spouses and children were sent to resorts far from Athens, courts were closed because of the lack of judges and jurors, and the mode of taxation was changed to address lower income.
"We do not want to postpone elections but we have made a draft of code of conduct".
But the committee that drafted the changes said it had decided to postpone that issue until after the elections.
Writing 101 instructors generally encourage students to postpone extensive editing work until nearing a final draft.
But Mr. Morsi did not concede to the opposition's main demand: to postpone the referendum long enough for an overhaul of the draft.
Not long after that, Jones — predicted to be among the top picks in the N.B.A. draft — surprised nearly everyone by announcing he would postpone his N.B.A. millions and stay in school at least one more year.
