"This is more likely to be a crisis (and substantive decision) postponed, than a crisis avoided altogether," Alexander Kinmont, an equity strategist at Nikko Salomon Smith Barney in Tokyo, wrote recently.
I can picture Mr. Bush's speech writers searching for a more elegant, eloquent way to say further tax cuts will not be postponed than "over my dead body," the words Mr. Bush recently used.
The CAM users were less likely to have their chemotherapy on schedule (OR 0.24, 95% CI 0.10 0.58 vs. chemotherapy postponed) than non-CAM users.
He added, "It would seem to me that going to see musicals is something people would postpone rather than just scrap".
That may seem unlikely – one would think that a bad economic outlook would incline governments to postpone, rather than accelerate, austerity measures.
And the compromise between the two Palestinian leaders, while pointing toward the erosion of Mr. Arafat's pre-eminence in the long term, appeared to postpone rather than resolve basic questions of who is in charge of what in the governing Palestinian authority.
More than half of recent pregnancies were unplanned, and despite a desire to postpone pregnancy, more than a third of women had unmet need for contraception.
Rather than postpone the season, a replacement was cobbled together: the Hudson Valley Bears, who played their home games in Poughkeepsie and Newburgh, N.Y.
I call on Mr. Solana's replacement, Catherine Ashton, to take concrete actions to press for Palestinian freedom rather than postpone it.
More broadly, critics said they doubted that Europe had done more than postpone a day of reckoning for the euro, with Ireland, Portugal and Spain, as well as Greece, all struggling with slow or negative growth and rising debts.
