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Now, however, the election will likely be postponed.
This issue will be at the core of a speech by British Prime Minister David Cameron (scheduled for January 18, but postponed in view of the hostage situation in Algeria), in which he will attempt to redefine the United Kingdom’s relationship with the EU.
As a result, that phase of the monetary union’s construction was postponed, leaving an impressive edifice that lacked a strong foundation to ensure stability in times of crisis.
It will then be possible to make progress on other important questions that have been postponed since the crisis erupted five years ago.
Among emerging economies, China could face a hard landing by late 2014 if critical structural reforms are postponed, and the other BRICs need to turn away from state capitalism.
The referendum decision to leave the EU will be honored, but its harsh economic consequences will be postponed: a triumph of pragmatism over ideology.
Midway through that decade, however, in a relatively secret process, these and other EFA goals were unceremoniously postponed until 2015.
As trade minister of Sweden for most of this period, I never hindered or postponed import competition.
Now that the taper has been postponed, capital is flowing back in some cases.
The short-term focus of these programs ensures that reforms will be postponed, and that obsolete industries will not be allowed to die.
As long as people felt that they were getting richer, demands for more freedom of speech, better protection of human rights, and the right to vote could be postponed.
First, Greek debt reduction was postponed for too long.
Obama wants a two-state solution, but, unlike Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, he hasn’t postponed tackling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict until the end of his second term in office.
But such “creative ambiguity” also ensures that the implementation phase will be more difficult, as tough choices that were postponed suddenly must be addressed.
However, this year’s planned drilling of three wells in the Chukchi Sea and two in the Beaufort Sea was first reduced to one well and then postponed until next year after a containment dome – an emergency device for stopping a blowout – was damaged.
The so-called “taper” of such purchases – though postponed by the US Federal Reserve last week – may be at hand.
A few government and business leaders have postponed visits to Saudi Arabia.
Music and sporting events, along with town gatherings, have also been canceled or postponed.
This entails not only an increase in the consumption-tax rate, the second round of which we have postponed, but also making the necessary adjustments so that our tax system no longer impairs investment incentives.
So Blair’s concession that he must leave office, a decision so long postponed and so disastrously protracted, represents among other things a triumph of the mundane over the permanent temptation to believe that politics is about anything else.
Though the official rollout has now been postponed, Macron’s latest project remains central to his presidency and to his conception of power.
During his campaign for the praetorship, an elected magistrate that ranked just below Rome’s ruling consuls, the elections had to be postponed twice because of fighting in the streets between his followers and the faction of his enemy, Annius Milo.
Because two candidates were killed in pre-election violence, voting for two of the directly elected seats was postponed.
But many fear that Tudor’s "National Revolution" was only postponed, not renounced.
Income tax relief due in 2003 has been postponed.
Investment and employment decisions would be postponed or canceled.
They thus shifted the debt burden away from the next generation and onto investors who did not bail out of the bond market at the first sign of rising prices, or who postponed buying a house when inflation would have wiped out the real value of their mortgage debt.
At the end of the century, Spain’s massive investment will have postponed global warming by 62 hours.
In a charged and uncertain political climate, in which new crises erupt on a daily basis, it is unsurprising that economic reform has been postponed repeatedly.
In addition, reforms and major structural changes are needed to sustain growth, and these could be postponed, or run into delays, in a decelerating global economy.
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