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So we kind of postponed that surgery.
And besides, growing old only postponed the inevitable, time seeing through what circumstance did not.
That will be history at this point, because it will no longer be possible to believe that aging is inevitable in humans, since it's been postponed so very effectively in mice.
Obviously, I don't want people to do this, because as an advertising man I tend to regard saving as just consumerism needlessly postponed.
Most of them have their elements of silliness, the postponed wedding, and so on.
The pain of the loss of their estranged child overtakes the shock of retirement postponed.
When a man (Emir Kusturica) is found guilty of a senseless murder and sentenced to death, the execution is postponed until a guillotine can be sent for.
The first scheduled campaign appearance of Obama and Clinton together was postponed because of the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando.
In largely agricultural China, huge state industrial enterprises had been less important, so their reform could have been postponed, and reliance could be placed on "starting afresh."
So he took it upon himself to call Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and urged him to delay bringing up the resolution (it was postponed for only a day).
This is a difficult but vital decision that the EU has postponed for too long.
Whatever the outcome, whoever wins, the key decisions that must be taken appear likely to be either postponed once again or -- worse yet -- taken hastily by inexperienced politicians huddled in insecure and unprincipled coalitions, governments that our votes can neither influence nor control.
I postponed the decision to leave Romania because I was childish enough to fool myself that I didn't live in a country, that I lived only in a language.
Then, last month, when the Fed postponed its withdrawal from so-called quantitative easing, markets quickly turned euphoric.
It is telling that Trump has postponed indefinitely his initial plan to visit the United Kingdom, where he would have drawn large protests.
Other urgently needed reforms, such as to taxation and family policies, are also being postponed.
Urgent reforms will be postponed further, and Germany’s economic prospects will be weakened.
Instead, visa liberalization was postponed until October, owing to Turkey’s refusal to comply with a few remaining conditions.
Nowadays, no hurricane or heat wave passes without a politician or activist claiming it as evidence of the need for a global climate deal, like the one that just got postponed until the end of the decade in Durban, South Africa.
Fifteen months ago, in a submission to the Economic Affairs Committee of the House of Lords, I predicted that all existing UK projects except Thanet Offshore Wind would be abandoned or postponed unless Parliament radically altered its Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROC) scheme.
And if that narrative fuels a populist victory in March, reform of the banking sector will again be postponed, raising the eventual cost still further.
For the uncompetitive parts of the eurozone, structural reforms can no longer be postponed.
Investment decisions are postponed, implying slower growth and an even more precarious fiscal position.
Baker postponed his visit and later vented his frustrations to the US Senate Committee on Appropriations.
The porter immediately called the medical team, and the operation was postponed.
Trichet even had to rescind the rate hike he had signaled for September, though he still claims the increase has been merely postponed, not abandoned.
Without these funds, polio immunization activities will have to be postponed, cancelled or seriously cut back in several countries.
On both issues, expect a serious tug-of-war, and any decisions are likely to be half-hearted, or in practice postponed.
Abbas’ presidential term has expired, and elections are constantly being postponed.
This may help to explain why Trump’s scheduled state visit to the UK has been postponed indefinitely.
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