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1. It was on this account she was pleased that she might for a little while longer postpone her arrival to Clive House and her father
2. Zarko had reasoned that trying to hide his manhood at that moment would merely postpone the inevitable and cause him more embarrassment
3. If the Preceptor left his planned attack on Badachro Sett much longer, he'd be forced to postpone it until after the cold winter winds had relinquished their hold on the forest
4. She knew the timing was not the best and even suggested they postpone their trip
5. Taking the hint, Colling turned his attention to staring at the buildings lining the broad avenues along which they were speeding, and made up his mind to postpone any attempt to obtain answers to the more pressing questions that he would have liked to have had answered
6. All I could ever do was postpone the inevitable
7. legislation that would postpone this act of the EPA by two years
8. Was it the desperation of an embattled individual searching for anything that might postpone the violent end that had suddenly confronted him? An end that he had always had an elemental fear of turning into reality with every nightmare that had rehearsed the probability, since his kind had emerged into an awareness of the consciousness of self?
9. And all those horror stories she told me about giving birth to children – oh, no! If I absolutely had to get married, I’d postpone it as long as possible, by which time I’d have bargaining power and not be subject to the whims of a domineering husband
10. As a young bureaucrat, Stalin would postpone for a few years his own upscale killings and show trials
11. I may have to postpone with her this week,” I said
12. tempted to postpone prayer — pray at that very time
13. choice and action will merely postpone recovery
14. Having an Exit Strategy It’s easy to postpone saving for retirement, but the earlier you start the faster you will accumulate wealth and save for retirement
15. Later, away from Zachary, I call Emily to postpone our date, and I don’t tell her about Zachary
16. " Those eight senators have now introduced legislation that would postpone this act of the EPA by two years
17. It’s been a week now, and I’m … I’ll postpone the track test until I hear from you
18. These are the things we tend to put off and postpone till another time, in the hope that the Lord will miraculously solve the problem or that it will magically disappear or better still, He sends someone to do it for you
19. They will not postpone the meeting to tomorrow if it is at all avoidable
20. ” I learned never to postpone, bury or put any problem back in the closet
21. “I’m so sorry, Lorna; we’ll have to postpone our trip for a day or two
22. because of this politeness that I felt I could postpone it for a
23. Unions’ objective was to postpone or eliminate the proposed tax on Cadillac
24. If your idea of success is to be a great pianist or painter or gardener, then to get there you must postpone immediate trivial pleasure such as watching TV or going out to the pub
25. I will only postpone it"s arrival by paying attention to passing
26. "It will only postpone the inevitable," Eva responded dejectedly
27. Whatever connection the Ice Cream Man had with law enforcement, he was able to postpone a couple of days until he got his house in order
28. to postpone the inevitable
29. Jesus requested that they postpone the discussion until the following day, when he would give them his answer
30. 4 "But herein is the danger to all who would postpone their entrance into the kingdom while they continue to pursue the pleasures of immaturity and indulge the satisfactions of selfishness: Having refused to enter the kingdom as a spiritual experience, they may subsequently seek entrance thereto when the glory of the better way becomes revealed in the age to come
31. To avoid time constraints though, you should setup a running schedule effectively, so that you no longer have to postpone many running sessions
32. 7 Pilate would have liked to postpone this hearing, but he saw the Jewish leaders were determined to proceed with the case
33. Brian held up his hand, indicating that she postpone her celebration
34. Harry decided once again to postpone thinking about it, and walked into the liv-
35. It wouldn’t stop the row but at least it would postpone it till tomorrow night
36. He closed his eyes and silently prayed that the powers that be in Westminster would have the sense to postpone the CESRE until after the mess in Abermôr was sorted out
37. ‘Why are you doing this? You know it’s within your gift to postpone the bloody thing
38. Local churches, for example, may confirm, postpone, or end the missionaries’ callings
39. Amaranta’s death, however, obliged her to postpone the decision
40. The marriage and the decision to spend a few months in Macondo to please his wife had obliged him to postpone it
41. Jesus knew He would be rejected by Israel and would have to postpone for two millennia
42. thousand years in the future, and that He, the Messiah, was going to postpone bringing in the
43. Exhausted as I was, I couldn't postpone any
44. The corners of his mouth turned down as he saw this corpulent and vaguely professional-looking man approaching him with a clear impression of urgency surrounding him, and he lifted his head as if to assert some superiority of the intruder and maintained his position with his right foot on the first stair as if to suggest a preponderance to postpone any matters to a later time
45. unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to
46. Hitler was, however, compelled to postpone the attack for a vital five weeks to intervene in the Balkans crisis due to the actions of his over ambitious Italian ally
47. It was Carla’s intention to make the man so filled with rage that he would come after her but she needed to postpone that desire for revenge, until after the car theft
48. Eisenhower decided to postpone the invasion for one day
49. Since they had agreed to seek ultimate victory in Europe by means of a cross Channel operation, was any other Mediterranean undertaking feasible? Because the available resources precluded simultaneous major campaigns in both areas, Mediterranean ventures would draw off the build-up being accumulated in the United Kingdom for the cross-Channel attack, and would probably postpone the decisive action
50. “I guess I should postpone the appeal process,” she said
1. The only dark cloud on their horizon was a note from their benefactor that had been pinned to a bottle of champagne that awaited them on the day of their arrival in their new home, offering his sincerest condolences on the sad news about the fisherman’s health and saying that he would consider it an honour if they would invite him to the funeral, long may that day be postponed
2. invite him to the funeral, long may that day be postponed
3. “Did they call it off? Was it postponed until more candidates might arrive?” He proposed
4. postponed as the servants brought more trays of food
5. tasks that couldn’t be postponed, and Jean decided to
6. She had postponed telling Zarko that she had already told her family that they wanted to get married
7. They were about to pass sentence to put him to death, when the matter was postponed until the next day
8. The more intelligent class roundly berated General Shafter, when his threat of bombardment was postponed from day to day
9. Knowing the history of Second World War and having read Machiavelli, they should understand that “war is not eluded: it is only postponed with advantage to the others”
10. That last temptation was the easy way out, the bloodless shadow of a victory, a postponed defeat and utterly, nothing else than treason
11. Spiritual pride effectively postponed full reunion for roughly 50 years
12. “Like it had done so before, nine times! Nine times in the past! Nine times you were always blind to see afterwards! Nine times that the final victory was stolen from me, postponed! Cheated, nine times in fifteen thousand two hundred and thirty nine long standard years! Each time trying to find what was missing, each time trying to find what exactly had gone wrong, each time failing at the last possible minute! Each time laying waste to entire cities along with their populace, entire civilizations along with their pathetic little history trying to make my point, mark my win! Each time you pathetic little machine, you called it a draw! A draw!”
13. had postponed because Pete was coming to see us, turned out to be the
14. “Couldn’t you have postponed the mission? It was my
15. you how to use this dumb cash register, he wouldn’t have postponed our date
16. She hadn’t gotten Tee to change his mind about Florida, but they had postponed the move until after the Christmas holiday
17. All other work was postponed,
18. “Prayer was postponed because of me?”
19. a general overthrow of the system of private property is inevitable, when the revolt of the poor against the rich becomes a necessity that can no longer be postponed
20. She had an infection which resulted in her urgently needed operation being postponed for five critical weeks
21. Pack ice had clustered around the point where the coupling was to be made, and the operation was postponed
22. You will be able to take the step that he has postponed
23. While I’d been away, Bernie had put Cal in charge of developing a new breed of beef cattle, so the canoe trip into the North Cascades had been postponed
24. Since warriors on fyrd were paid two pennies per day, this constituted a respectable bribe—or would it be considered a tip in this culture? Payment of a landing fee was postponed, in part because Sheila's status as warrior or woman couldn't be settled
25. In a deal with the White House this tax was postponed till
26. against these cuts and in the eleventh hour they are postponed to the
27. Institute, a dream that has been postponed for 6 years and WOW it was a marvelous learning Opportunity
28. When actually you were not wondering that, but rather the cause of his detained flatulence and why he hasn’t sought medical help to alleviate his postponed gaseous byproduct outflow dysfunction
29. The civil rights advocates found themselves losing even more support after the speech with this afternoon’s march being postponed due to lack of support
30. `He was very concerned about you and it is safe to say that the lessons are postponed until further notice
31. 4 Both Simon and Jude had for some time wanted to get married, but they had disliked to do this without Jesus' consent; accordingly they had postponed these events, hoping for their eldest brother's return
32. Important financial decisions should be made before the 6th or postponed to next month, when Mercury starts to move forward again
33. The prayers of time, when indited by the spirit and expressed in faith, are often so vast and all-encompassing that they can be answered only in eternity; the finite petition is sometimes so fraught with the grasp of the Infinite that the answer must long be postponed to await the creation of adequate capacity for receptivity; the prayer of faith may be so all-embracing that the answer can be received only on Paradise
34. The child is always within his rights when he presumes to petition the parent; and the parent is always within his parental obligations to the immature child when his superior wisdom dictates that the answer to the child's prayer be delayed, modified, segregated, transcended, or postponed to another stage of spiritual ascension
35. Their market date had been postponed when they were suddenly required to provide additional research
36. The workout shorts and sport bra indicated that he had postponed her trip to the gym
37. If it hadn’t been for the newspaper men that were in town, the festival would have been postponed for a few days
38. Apparently, their companies had postponed the business trip that they should have been on
39. School was postponed for all children until they reached the age of 15
40. When he finally couldn’t stop her from coming anymore, Nicolas kissed her forehead as she gasped into his neck and shuddered with pleasure, riding the waves of her postponed orgasm
41. I got to work and had fifteen minutes to spare before the meeting when I found out the meeting had been postponed for half an hour anyway
42. Remembering those things as she prepared José Arcadio’s trunk, Úrsula wondered if it was not preferable to lie down once and for all in her grave and let them throw the earth over her, and she asked God, without fear, if he really believed that people were made of iron in order to bear so many troubles and mortifications, and asking over and over she was stirring up her own confusion and she felt irrepressible desires to let herself go and scamper about like a foreigner and allow herself at last an instant of rebellion, that instant yearned for so many times and so many times postponed, putting her resignation aside and shitting on everything once and for all and drawing out of her heart the infinite stacks of bad words that she had been forced to swallow over a century of conformity
43. At that time Aureliano Segundo postponed any appoint-ments in order to be with Meme, to take her to the movies or the circus, and he spent the greater part of his idle time with her
44. The first thing that she did was to set a definite date for the postponed telepathic operation
45. telling us that His Kingdom is going to be postponed for another two thousand years? What of
46. Believe it not, the event was held rather than postponed
47. Yet, after all that time, not a single army soldier has set foot yet on the Philippines, while the invasion of Burma has been postponed indefinitely
48. It was time to face an important exam in cellular biology, one that had been successfully postponed up to that day
49. In order to satisfy the orders to take the Philippines, the invasions of Thailand and Burma had been postponed, four army divisions had been wasted, hundreds of planes and thousands of aviators had been lost and dozens of ships had been sunk, with thousands of sailors killed in the process
50. Max phoned Dan Lewinsky and postponed the appointment saying he had food poisoning and would be in touch; he could hang onto the deposit though
1. War is bad, but appeasement to secure peace is very bad and more mischievous and harmful when it postpones a worse war
2. (“Le Nostre Buone Intenzioni”, Otto Ohm) The two attitudes are closely connected: just because they think that they can obtain everything easily and it is enough to dream about things to conquer them, the puppet very easily postpones his first commitment and does not hesitate to sell the precious spelling-book to enter the Great Theatre – allured, or rather attracted by the acute intelligence of temptation
3. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future
4. Locking the bulkhead causes a vacuum, which slows the leak in the hull and postpones the ship from sinking
5. Traders often roll down and out (farther OTM and a more distant expiration date) with the belief that they can find a way to protect assets by making almost any trade that postpones expiration, as long as it does not cost cash
1. Maybe it was a way of postponing the realisation that she was gone
2. Faced with the prospect of paying (marginally) higher taxes, taxpayers may (otherwise) decide to manage their finances accordingly by (either) spending less or postponing spending on all non-essential items
3. “Well, not per se, but if you mean whether or not I believe in an afterlife, you could say I’m becoming one pretty fast, with the express intention of postponing first-hand knowledge of it as much as possible
4. Of course, knowing all these things that lead to postponing tasks
5. They also were selling by making deals, some of the trades benefiting them personally, misusing petty cash and postponing maintenance and repair
6. instead, postponing further exploration of the lab for other
7. This spokesman for Judas went on to explain that Judas recognized it would be best for the peace of Israel if Jesus should be taken into custody, and that, as evidence of his sorrow in having participated in such a movement of error and as proof of his sincerity in now returning to the teachings of Moses, he had come to offer himself to the Sanhedrin as one who could so arrange with the captain holding the orders for Jesus' arrest that he could be taken into custody quietly, thus avoiding any danger of stirring up the multitudes or the necessity of postponing his arrest until after the Passover
8. Postponing isn’t possible anymore
9. Israel would reject and share the blame with Rome in killing their Messiah, thereby postponing
10. But the fact emerged that Admiral Moon had made a serious error in postponing the exercise for an hour
11. assume that shareholders desire to incur the risk of postponing immediate consumption for
12. Postponing the inevitable
13. the earliest finishing time, which is the earliest time an activity can be finishing assuming all activities take their estimated times to complete; LS - the latest starting time, which is the latest time an activity can start on an activity without postponing completion of the project, assuming all activities take their expected times to complete; LF -
14. the latest finishing time, which is the latest time an activity can be finished without postponing completion of the project, assuming all activities take their expected times to complete [20]
15. She lagged behind, her way of postponing what was next on her agenda, and–in a more subliminal way–to continue to soak in the overpowering feeling of love which she’d just experienced
16. “Yours is he?” the trooper said, postponing his intended grapple
17. Postponing worrying is something different
18. Postponing worrying means that it is alright for an initial
19. Can you see the difference between suppressing thoughts and postponing
20. this information package may require that you stop the postponing worrying experiment for a certain
21. tery and power in postponing what you're capable of
22. postponing the moment of realization a few seconds further
23. more, not able to break the cycle, postponing the arrival of heaven
24. I started making plans to go there to find out what was wrong but kept postponing them because of my weak physical state
25. postponing the gratification which the immediate use of their money
26. that postponing the wedding would have this kind of effect on you
27. She was debating within herself on the eligibility of beginning her story directly, or postponing it till Marianne were in stronger health;-- and they crept on for a few minutes in silence
28. "So serious, sire, that when the circumstance surprised me in the midst of a family festival, on the very day of my betrothal, I left my bride and friends, postponing everything, that I might hasten to lay at your majesty's feet the fears which impressed me, and the assurance of my devotion
29. In fact, it was only postponing the difficulty one stage
30. Philippa was in fact postponing Gerry’s departure by almost a year
31. Donovan at one point mumbled something about postponing the trip
32. It slid shut between us, ending the conversation—or at least postponing it temporarily
33. The doctors kept postponing DeShawn’s procedure because they thought he’d have a better chance of survival once they stabilized his breathing problems and got him out of his semi-comatose state
34. I suppose I felt I’ve spent my whole damned life postponing it; why not just have it out
35. He experienced one ecstatic and infernal moment; he allowed his man to go on ahead, knowing that he had him safe, but desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy at the thought that he was taken and yet at seeing him free, gloating over him with his gaze, with that voluptuousness of the spider which allows the fly to flutter, and of the cat which lets the mouse run
36. How many of us are there? There is no question of postponing this task until tomorrow
37. She was debating within herself on the eligibility of beginning her story directly, or postponing it till Marianne were in stronger health; and they crept on for a few minutes in silence
38. He was postponing the case against the Skoptzy, although the absence witness was an entirely unnecessary one
39. Instead of postponing the subject from day to day, he only wished it to come before the House that gentlemen might understand one other, and put an end to the doubts that now existed
40. If it could be made manifest to him that any particular favorable consequence would be produced by postponing the session beyond the fourth Monday in May, he might be induced to accede to it
41. With the aid of money loaned to him by a gambler friend, he succeeds the next day, by means of large purchases of Textile Trust, in postponing the catastrophe
42. Wright was in favor of postponing, and decidedly opposed to the bill
43. The previous question there, if decided in the negative, suppresses debate, by postponing the main question
44. Widgery declared war to be inevitable, and it ought not to be delayed; on this account he was against postponing the bill until to-morrow
45. reports in favor of postponing bills relative to the Mississippi territory becoming a State, &c