He declared that he was being tried for his political convictions rather than for any real crime or misdemeanor and requested a one-month postponement to prepare a defense.
No, he who has said 'a day' has granted too long a postponement to swift misfortune; an hour, an instant of time, suffices for the overthrow of empires.
ON JUNE 8th, as The Economist went to press, the board of Airbus Industrie was due, after yet another postponement, to take a decision on the commercial launch of the consortium's double-decker super-jumbo, known as the A3XX.
After various match postponements due to a spell of bad weather and the various cup competitions United finally returned to league action in mid February with new signing Hoskins scoring on his début as the Blades ran out 3 0 victors over Wycombe Wanderers.
Unless the House of Commons has ratified the withdrawal agreement by then momentum is growing across the EU for a lengthy postponement to give Britain a "long reflection period".
The state contended, as it has in previous hearings, that Purdue wants the postponement to prepare for a bankruptcy declaration that would move the case to bankruptcy court.
The postponement led to a unusual event.
Shortly before she went to Brussels to seek a postponement to Britain's withdrawal from the EU, the prime minister had a temper tantrum that was no prettier for being dressed up as a televised address to the nation.
In the fall, the French Committee on Finance presented a report to the National Assembly calling for a postponement to the scheduled 2016 closure of Fessenheim, citing damaging economic impacts. .
The New Times was scheduled to go to court last week for adjudication, but its attorney, Frank Rorie, asked for a postponement to Sept. 3 after Copley Press Inc., owner of the Breeze, filed an objection.
