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But democracy is messy; with some of our Orange Revolution’s promises postponed or disavowed by President Viktor Yushchenko, there is a chance that on March 26, when Ukrainians vote for a new parliament, they may in their disappointment choose to return to the realm of corrupt and autocratic rule.
Would his sentence be commuted, postponed, or annulled?
Unfortunately, given high inflation, structural adjustment has been postponed, with efforts to control credit expansion becoming the government’s first priority.
But if elections are postponed, nobody will know when or if the vote will return.
Yet another is that bond markets are completely distorted, and fiscal consolidation in highly indebted countries has been postponed.
Difficult decisions will at last be made rather than quirkily postponed: on the peace with the Palestinian and with Syria, on the economy, on social justice, on education.
A ceasefire in Aleppo cannot be postponed any further.
It is a task that can no longer be ignored or postponed.
The decision has been postponed until early next year.
Cameron’s long-planned speech on Europe was postponed time and again.
Market-oriented reforms, long postponed by the Iliescu government, appear to have failed to raise living standards.
Of course, like any shrewd politician, Thatcher knew which battles were unwinnable, or had to be postponed; but she always preferred winning a fight to reaching a compromise.
Musharraf postponed the elections scheduled for December 2007 until February 2008.
Part II of the stalled document, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, can be postponed.
If Part II is postponed, the European Court will have to define these fundamental rights for the time being.
Essentially a free-trade treaty with additional political elements, its signing was postponed because of the imprisonment of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
North Korea’s fragility is suggested by the fact that even such an important political event as the Worker’s Party conference, held for the first time in three decades, was abruptly postponed earlier in September.
Just three or four months ago it seemed that they would be postponed or cancelled.
For now, the ICC has agreed to excuse Kenyatta from attending most of the trial, which was recently postponed and is now set to begin on February 5, 2014.
And, instead of doing what was needed – even while blaming his predecessors – Modi postponed the decision until September.
Should the 2016 Summer Olympic Games be postponed or moved elsewhere?
Perhaps the risks are low enough to justify going ahead with the Rio Olympics (which in any case could be postponed rather than canceled), but perhaps they are not.
Had the start of accession negotiations been postponed or canceled, Turkey’s pro-Europeans would have suffered from a nationalist backlash.
Hu’s ChanceChinese President Hu Jintao’s upcoming visit to the United States, postponed following hurricane Katrina, will be different from previous bilateral meetings.
Rather, death is being postponed, and with it chronic disease and disability: not only is life expectancy in healthy countries increasing by 2.5 years per decade, but the typical span of healthy life is increasing at the same pace.
Regardless of who wins, addressing the problem can no longer be postponed.
But these demands have resulted in many infrastructure projects – such as the third runway at Heathrow or the high-speed railway between Turin and Lyon – being postponed for years.
Nonetheless, years of political paralysis and postponed structural reforms have created vulnerabilities.
For starters, the economy is not yet in a position to handle the 4-5%-of-GDP “fiscal cliff” that is approaching as all of the hard political decisions that were postponed come into view at the end of this year.
The future of Iran is another matter of great regional importance that remains unresolved, postponed until the new president, Hassan Rowhani, takes office.
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