"We immediately pushed the pause button," Mr. Tseng said.
Ms. Marra said the idea was to just push the pause button on busy suburban lives.
But Dr. Rosenblatt said the climate of uncertainty suggested that "we should push the pause button for a time".
Now the Heat can claim the streak was never really important and you can all push the pause button on your attention spans until the playoffs.
At the Center for Reflective Parenting, we recommend that during moments of conflict with a child, when the emotional heat is high, parents should "push the pause button" and reflect on what is going on.
Though the deficit came down somewhat in the past year and is forecast to do so again in the coming year, foreign credit-rating agencies were disappointed that Mr Chidambaram has, in his words, "pushed the pause button" on meeting the deficit-reduction targets imposed by a law passed in 2003.
Run by recently retired volunteers and structured to build trust and interaction among the 30 or so participants, the workshop sessions are a quick getaway that enable busy people to push the pause button, reflect on their futures and examine difficult-to-discuss topics, said Ronald J. Manheimer, the former director of the center and creator of the eight-year-old program.
The N.F.L.'s long off-season lockout, during which players spent time on courthouse steps rather than on practice fields, was supposed to push the pause button on a part of the game that relies so heavily on the kind of precision that can be honed only by repetition.
Rather than see an opportunity to snap up a bargain, today's value-obsessed American shopper is "just as likely to push the pause button, thinking that if the shop is cutting prices this much now, I might get it even cheaper in a few weeks when the economy gets really bad".
So, for these reasons, I have decided, reluctantly to push the pause button on these controversial parliamentary reforms.
