The word 'postponements' is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the act of delaying an event or action. Example: Due to the current situation, all upcoming concerts have been announced to have indefinite postponements.
Between the time most pop music fans ended their workdays on Monday and clocked in the next morning, two of the summer's biggest tours vanished from the calendar: U2 postponed 16 shows, and Christina Aguilera put off 20. Cancellations and postponements happen every year.
But his position remains precarious given the temporary nature of the postponements.
After several postponements, the conference took place on August 25th but only 20 representatives of the AU's 54 countries turned up, plus a handful of heads of state, notably those of Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti and Equatorial Guinea, whose president holds the AU's annual chair.In this section Can the joy last?
More a job bodged, and crying out to be done over again by EU heads of government when they meet in Berlin on March 24th-25th.The farm deal is an Augustinian package of promises and postponements: yes, we will cut subsidies, but not yet.
It has been a long time coming, but after months of wrangling, three postponements and a lot of international pressure, Madagascar is finally set to hold its first presidential elections since a coup in early 2009.
After repeated postponements, nobody now expects much sign of 3G in Europe until 2004 at the earliest.Meanwhile, America has been catching up.
AFTER five years of postponements, the presidents of Russia and Ukraine at last put their names to a treaty of "friendship, co-operation and partnership" on May 31st conceding, in effect, that those elements had been singularly lacking hitherto.
Which is why, after a string of postponements over past years, Mr Yeltsin felt physically and politically robust enough to go to Kiev last week and tell the Ukrainians that they are, in effect, a free people.Small print, big issuesThe gist of the treaty is eminently sound.
Economic growth, a cap on public-sector pay and pensions from 2011, an increase in the employment-insurance tax, plus the usual unspecified efficiency gains and programme postponements are to help Mr Darling shrink the deficit each year as a percentage of GDP.
Relations between Mr Yusuf and the present force behind the Aceh Party, Malik Mahmud, are poor, and old wounds from GAM days have been reopened.Mr Yusuf was not helped by the election postponements: his term ended in February, which denied his campaign the incumbent's usual access to state resources.
Privatisation has lagged: one big sale, of the state aluminium company, was due on July 23rd only after repeated postponements and, now, to just one bidder at a lowered base price.
