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Main Entry:	post·pone [pohst-pohn, pohs-] /poʊstˈpoʊn, poʊs-/ Show Spelled
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Example Sentences

Connivers can postpone foreclosure for years by using the delays built into clogged court systems.

He said more unemployed law-school graduates were also seeking to postpone repayment of their loans.

Eurosceptics crow that all this will postpone or even kill off the single currency.

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Connivers can postpone foreclosure for years by using the delays built into clogged court systems.

He said more unemployed law-school graduates were also seeking to postpone repayment of their loans.

Eurosceptics crow that all this will postpone or even kill off the single currency.

In many cases the helpers postpone their own opportunity to mate.

Canceled projects and technological challenges postpone harnessing the power of waves and tides.

His only consolation was that he had helped postpone it till now.

But there's another political monster we've tried to postpone that's fed up with our recalcitrance.

If you can postpone leaving until the semester or quarter break, that's even better.

But that doesn't mean you should not try to postpone them.

So far she had managed to postpone the gauna, the transition to married life in his household.

The purpose is to delay or even postpone your loved one from going to a nursing home.

The receiver refused, offering to postpone the sale instead, but the farmers insisted that they go ahead.

Or that companies could postpone making profits indefinitely.

But he has not agreed to postpone an election until after the committee has ruled.

The hard choice is to not spend so much effort, time and cost trying to postpone death in terminal cases.

Denial or minimization of adverse reactions may lead the doctor to underestimate and postpone necessary action.

On the other hand, if they expect to live and work longer, they may feel they can postpone saving for retirement until later.

The opposition worries about electronic fraud-or a system collapse that would postpone the referendum.

Where possible, companies will continue to postpone investment decisions-and that includes hiring new workers.

He stopped short of proposing to rescind or postpone the tax cuts.

Businesses postpone capital spending and hiring until the clouds clear.

Until it does, he believes, the corporation will have to postpone its plans to list shares on domestic exchanges.

Subsidies would anyway merely postpone the inevitable.

Central banks can postpone a downturn only by injecting more and more credit.

Sweden's foreign minister, had threatened to postpone the euro referendum.

So farmers postpone the purchase, believing they will make it later.

They'll pay to postpone the hour of final reckoning.

Kleppe, might postpone the sale of offshore oil leases in.

It's easier to postpone saying no than to say no in person when you're first starting your job.

Sullivan to postpone the internal audit, people involved in the case said.

Sapire and two of his colleagues accepted the application to postpone the case.

He is entreated to postpone it and finish the task of heartening the people.

One of the reasons academics postpone starting or completing big projects is that it is so easy to be diverted by minutiae.

Baker's research could point to ways to postpone widespread resistance by taking advantage of those weaknesses.

And the reason is clearly to further postpone the time when you can cut the cord.

All the cap and trade approach does is postpone the huge rate increases that will be imposed down the line.

It was bad enough that they had to postpone the initial stock offering of the community site company.

Plus, a bailout would prevent or postpone any real or.

If women postpone their first child past their mid-30s, it may be too late to have a second even if they want one.

The attempts to postpone this reconversion are termed evolution/natural selection.

The work could significantly postpone female infertility.

Any in falling material can only postpone its complete evaporation.

The rise in unemployment has been temporarily blunted by a government subsidy that helps companies postpone lay-offs.

Griffin said he accepted shuttle managers' recommendation to postpone the flight, to perform the extra work.

The bailout did nothing but postpone the inevitable.

State and private pensions should encourage workers to postpone retirement.

They worry that placing restrictions on research using embryos could postpone treatments for patients with devastating diseases.

Moreover, all sorts of interventions late in life can now help to postpone death.

The difficulty is that these discussions are causing electric utilities to postpone construction.

Many washing machines here are sold with a delay button to allow you to set them to postpone the start time.

There are other good reasons to try to postpone any reckoning.

Congress seems more intent on finding ways to help airlines postpone their day of reckoning.

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