Sentence examples for postponed work from inspiring English sources

And he has postponed work on New York's third water tunnel, which would be crucial to the city's survival if either of the two existing tunnels should fail.

This summer, he postponed work on his latest novel (whose subject is top secret) to concentrate on a script for a film set at the start of the first world war.

Zuckerberg allegedly postponed work on their project until he was able to launch his own similar project, soon to be known as Facebook.

He started writing about the relationship between the monarch and his therapist as early as the 1980s, but at the request of the King's widow, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, postponed work until her death in 2002.

But that would effectively postpone work until next spring, since the Alaskan construction season ends in September.

Once approved, military projects are hard to kill.Such are the ingredients for a spiral of cost and delay: technological stumbles hold up development; delay raises costs; governments postpone work further to avoid busting yearly budgets, incurring greater long-term costs.

The prospect of a giant project that promised giant benefits led state transportation officials to avoid or postpone work that would have to be undone when the Crossing project began in earnest, said Joe Cortright, an economist in Portland who studied and criticized the old project for years.

But despite her success, Alireza discourages young women from postponing work until after having a family.

Effective bi-project management should not only apply normal project management practices, but also anticipate risks and postpone work to the last possible moment.

Despite the understandable focus on the near term, we do not have the luxury of postponing work on longer-term issues.

Mayer reportedly had to postpone work on it after suffering from the throat condition granuloma.