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Example sentences for: deferring

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Last week, House Republicans tried to postpone a fiscal squeeze by deferring payment of the Earned Income Tax Credit to low-income workers.
Either way, throughout his tenure he avoided making decisions, instead deferring to the president and playing different factions within his own government off one another.
She said the president reliably says the correct things about foreign policy and economics, and then reliably blows it by deferring to the internationalists at the United Nations and the IMF.
A piece assesses George W. Bush's foreign policy, arguing that he covers up his ignorance of foreign affairs by deferring to experts from his dad's administration, including Condoleezza Rice and Brent Scowcroft.
The LAT says that Republicans wanted in return for deferring a treaty vote an ironclad promise from the Democrats not to bring the treaty up during the election, but "Clinton feared making such a pledge would tie his hands in the event of a diplomatic emergency."