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Discover LudwigThe phrase "they have deferred" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that a decision, action, or event has been postponed or delayed by a group of people. Example: "After much discussion, they have deferred the meeting until next week."
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As banks' fortunes improve with economic recovery, regulators are thought to be less likely to let them keep benefiting from a practice of "pretend and extend," under which they have deferred recognition of obvious real estate losses.
Invite students to share dreams that they have deferred and explain which of the six images that Hughes uses in the poem is most similar to what subsequently happened to their deferred dreams.
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They wondered what else in life they had deferred or diminished because they had been too intimidated to try.
Church and State Without comment, the justices denied review in four cases on which they had deferred action while they were considering the two Ten Commandments cases.
There was a drop of 10 percentage points in the share who said they had deferred needed care in the past year because of cost, to 17percentt from 27percentt.
The proposal was that the cast would return to their original salaries in week three of the London run, and be reimbursed what they had deferred for the first two weeks by the end of week six.
The decision, the first on the type of "variable prepaid forward contract" deal Anschutz did, means that an unknown but significant number of rich company founders and corporate executives "are going to be on the hook for taxes they thought they had deferred," said Robert Willens, a New-York-based independent tax analyst.
Forty percent of naïve patients indicated that they had deferred HCV treatment initiation because of their clinician's recommendation.
This is similar to another New Zealand study 24 which stated that out of a total of 18 320 respondents, 6.4% reported that they had deferred collecting a prescription at least once during the preceding 12 months because they could not afford the cost of collecting the prescription.
As noted in the results, this group of patients was slower than their counterparts preoperatively and they may have deferred testing due to their postoperative acuity.
If Mr. Madoff, who was the chairman and effectively sole owner of the British unit, "regarded the research as being of value, they would ultimately have deferred to his view even had they raised objections".
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