Sentence examples for postponing by from inspiring English sources

An official of the Uniformed Firefighters Association criticized a panel yesterday for postponing by one week the announcement of its recommendations on closing firehouses.

SHORTLY after he was elected president in 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy marched uninvited into a meeting of European Union finance ministers in Brussels to declare that France was postponing by two years its commitment to balance its budget.

In the U.S., California's Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility has won a decision by the NRC's Atomic Safety & Licensing Board, postponing by 52 months a decision on re-licensing reactors at Diablo Canyon.

Third: Updating the data and reforming the rate structure, while understood as necessary steps, has been postponed by elected representatives for fear of political backlash.

The night session was postponed by rain.

That game was postponed by a lightning storm.

The inquest was postponed by the coroner in September last year.

The album's release was postponed by a year.

And they postponed by a day the fact that Albert Pujols is now a free agent.

On Monday, the trial of the men was indefinitely postponed by a federal judge.

A decision on managing the global oceans was postponed by three years.