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How to use postponement in a sentence

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In both, however, the issue was the postponement of operations, not an outright refusal to carry them out.
In our second feature, editor at large Alision Stein Wellner shows us how this postponement of adulthood is affecting other parts of society.
As with any postponement, opinions vary as to whether or not the game could have gone ahead.
A postponement of joy for some future, but existentially uncertain, pay-off.
It blamed the closure on the downturn in the technology sector and the postponement of several projects with large blue-chip companies.
The bell at the Empire Hotel would ring at midday and a flag would be run up the pub's flag-pole to indicate the postponement of the match.
Corporate sponsors of research sometimes demand the postponement, or even nondisclosure, of findings.
However, postponement, injury, ineligibility, and finally his no-show had prevented him making his 100th appearance since then.
She first received a jury duty notice in January but received a postponement because she was pregnant.
The addition of undersoil heating would almost rule out the postponement of matches for climatic reasons.
The underuse of theatres is also resulting in the postponement of 145 operations a week.
Boucher refused to speculate when asked if the action could lead to the imposition of emergency or postponement of general elections in Pakistan.
Before the stay of execution, former US president Jimmy Carter repeated his appeal for a postponement.
Bad weather, dangerous conditions or some other unforeseen event may result in the cancellation or postponement of this tour.
The original amendment is not precise enough with regard to the eventual postponement.
The press release about the postponement tactlessly extolled the benefits of iX for Frankfurt as an international financial centre.
I only wish to forewarn the other groups that we shall be asking for this postponement of the vote.
But since the international community is defending the rule of law, it is hard to explain the postponement of the elections.
Unluckily, Glasper had to cancel his concert? but consider it, rather, a postponement.
It makes no sense in the context of the postponement report, and it is totally nonsensical and hysterical in tone.
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Examples from Classical Literature
For this reason he requested, through a friend, the postponement of the debate.
Upon the initiative of this Government a year's postponement of reparations and other intergovernmental debts was brought about.
It is not difficult to see the advantages in the postponement of sexual reproduction until the rate of growth begins to decline.
We should have more revenue, and that without delay, hindrance, or postponement.
I have resigned my Gifford lectureship, but they will undoubtedly grant me indefinite postponement.
As a last resort, Stearns had secured the postponement of the two miles to the tag end of the afternoon.
Mrs. Lincoln was guided by these counsels, and no postponement was announced.
These men had probably met to consider the cause of this postponement.
Now there was no longer a reason for postponement of a contract.
Personally he saw no necessity for postponement of the marriage.
Jaggers caused an application to be made for the postponement of his trial until the following Sessions.
Lucy frets at the postponement of seeing him, but it does not touch her looks.
The king had reminded me several times, of late, that the postponement I had asked for, four years before, had about run out now.
The others resented postponement, but it was just his scruples that charmed me.
If so, there must be a week's postponement, and that was unlucky.
Owing to the illness of one of his fellow-clerks, it was likely that he would get no holiday until later in the year, which would mean the postponement of their marriage.
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