Sentence examples for postponement for a day from inspiring English sources

A final Senate vote on the bill was expected Monday, but flight delays associated with the weekend storm forced its postponement for a day.

On Tuesday, NASA officials were optimistic about the weather for Friday, although they said there was a potential for high winds that could force a postponement for a day or longer.

The alternative, though, might only have been a postponement of a day or two.

Likewise, in the Warri area of Delta State, where violence forced the postponement of elections for a day, election observers found that in some parts, polls never opened and election workers never materialized.

Flight managers had been worried, right up to the final minutes of the countdown, that thunderstorms might force a postponement for the second day in a row.

Myles Brand, the N.C.A.A. president, who hinted of possible postponement for the first time Monday night, confirmed last night that the tournaments would go on.

Depending on the consequence, the event was defined as either a postponement (later the same day) or a cancellation (another day).

The inaugural race of the best-of-three Swisss between Swiss and American yachts will have to wait again as rough seas Wednesday forced a postponement for the second time.

Mr. Khodorkovsky, the former chief executive of the oil company Yukos and a political rival of President Boris N. Yeltsin, asked the court for a one-day postponement of his opening statement.

After pleading not guilty to all the charges against him, Mr. Khodorkovsky, the former chief executive of the oil company Yukos, asked the court for a one-day postponement of his opening statement.

The Afghan commission charged with scheduling the elections voted for the postponement on Thursday after two days of consultations with the cabinet.