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206 examples of Postpone in a sentence

I no longer want to postpone anything in life.
The most common reaction among men is to start a new business within one year of failure, but in a different sector, while women decide to look for a job and postpone the creation of a new business.
You prefer to postpone decisions, because you do not have the capacity to make them.
We postpone the online trainings, we don't bother to learn the shortcuts, and we get frustrated at the number of tools we have to remember how to log into and use.
I told them that I'd explain later, but we had to postpone the meeting because I was going to perform her as the statue came down.
But if we take seriously how these systems that we depend on for so much operate, I don't see how we can postpone this conversation anymore.
And the actions that are advocated are not even purported to solve the problem, merely to postpone it by a little.
All models show it will postpone warming for about six years in 2100.
Ao you have to come back, and you are so busy and you have so many other things to do, you will always tend to postpone and postpone, and eventually it gets too late.
On the other hand, if your problem is you tend to postpone, then it might give you a reason to act today rather than later.
You also have a lead character who's presented as an over-the-hill, aging baseball star, but who is actually quite immature - pro ball allowed him to postpone growing up.
Rather than substituting either of his main stars, Lubitsch decided to postpone production, in the meantime directing Greta Garbo in 'Ninotchka (1939).'
Contaminated drinking water manages to postpone a class field trip by turning NJ teens into zit-heads.
Dane Corvin, who falls in love with the half Swinomish and half Irish Hannah ( Karen Allen), understands the plight of the Swinomish but fails to postpone the operation.
The resource curse means, of course, that Russian elites will prefer to postpone restructuring the economy and modernizing the country’s political and economic institutions.
But there are strong reasons for the Fed to postpone interest-rate hikes and to keep monetary policy expansionary over the coming quarters.
Another reason why the Fed should postpone a rate hike is that financial turmoil in emerging markets, particularly China, could have a substantial impact on the global economy, with some clear implications for the US economy.
The Fed should regard lower commodity prices, reduced inflationary pressures, changes in the labor market, and further disruptive technological shifts as sufficiently convincing arguments to postpone a rate hike.
It hid economic distortions, allowing successive governments to postpone needed structural reform as it financed the status quo.
In exchange for an exemption from the tariffs, South Korea agreed to reduce its steel exports to the US to 70% of 2015-17 levels, postpone a phase-out of the 25% US tariff on small trucks for 20 years (from 2021), and increase its annual limit on US-made automobile imports from 25,000 to 50,000.
Yet sticking to the euro and forcing all of the adjustments in wages risks greater unrest; indeed, it might merely postpone the inevitable.
But whatever the outcome, the US cannot postpone forever its inevitable decline relative to the rest of the world.
And Iraqi politicians would not agree to postpone that deadline on terms that could be justified to the American people.
Indeed, inaction in Iraq will not only postpone the inevitable reckoning with the past; it may prolong the past, as unfulfilled demands for justice fuel frustration, resentment, and support for extremist leaders and authoritarian solutions.
Should we postpone action until we learn about what works?
Abandoning austerity out of fear that financial markets might be short-sighted would only postpone the day of reckoning, because debt ratios would increase in the long run.
In India, there is speculation that Modi may postpone his planned visit to the US later this month.
But if he were to work with Serbia's opposition (by pledging, say, to postpone Montenegro's bid for independence if a legitimate prime minister is named), and focus public protests on installing a new premier, Yugoslavia could rid itself of Milosevic in a rather elegant way.
In thinking, for example, about American predominance in the world today, it would be nice to know when it will decline, and whether the United States can do anything to postpone the inevitable.
Indeed, refusal to support Georgia’s struggling democracy would most likely postpone democratic progress in Ukraine, Belarus, even in Russia itself.
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