Sentence examples for surprise postponement from inspiring English sources

"This is a major foreign policy initiative, and I don't want to ram it through the Senate," Mr. Lott told reporters after the surprise postponement.

The surprise postponement threw the endgame of the debt-limit clash into confusion and raised concerns among some on Capitol Hill that the government was lurching toward a default.

The South China Morning Post, based in Hong Kong, said the date was a "surprise postponement" and attributed the decision to the party's desire to punish a top former official, Bo Xilai, before the meeting convened.

The vote suffered from a surprise weeklong postponement and significant delays in the opening of polling stations.

The White House was taken by surprise by the postponement as well, having shared the expectation that Mr. Boehner had the Republican votes to pass his measure.

His budget would put "fuel in the tank of the British economy", he declared, ensuring no one could miss what had been the climax and chief surprise in his speech: a postponement in a planned rise in fuel duty coupled with a 1p cut, to be felt at the pumps that very evening.

The trial judge in the Microsoft antitrust case surprised everyone by ordering a postponement of the conduct restrictions he imposed just two weeks earlier until appeals are complete.

Because of the proxy issues, Dynegy's postponement was not a surprise.

I was not surprised when the Government announced the postponement of the £2bn Lloyds Banking Group share sale aimed at small investors.

Thus, the new postponement of the Sixth Party Congress doesn't surprise me, though it is already 12 years since the last one.

He finally flew to Iceland and agreed to play after a two-day postponement of the match by FIDE President Max Euwe, a surprise doubling of the prize fund by British investment banker Jim Slater, and much persuasion, including a phone call by Henry Kissinger to Fischer.