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Example sentences for: postpone

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The House and Senate passed legislation to build a national missile defense system . The White House persuaded the Senate, but not the House, to insert a clause saying the system won't be deployed until it's "technologically possible," which could allow President Clinton and his successors to postpone it.
More Miscellany: NATO formally admitted Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic . The United States successfully pressured its allies to postpone a similar decision on Romania and Slovenia until 1999.
The main news source for the Times ' leads is Sunday's chat shows--16 senatorial heads talked, according to the LAT --and the main new information coming from them is that some senators think President Clinton should postpone his State of the Union address if the scheduled date--January 19th--should find his fate in the Senate still unresolved.
Last week, House Republicans tried to postpone a fiscal squeeze by deferring payment of the Earned Income Tax Credit to low-income workers.
Example: "It is dangerous for an American president to launch a military strike, however justified, at a time when many will conclude he acted only out of narrow self-interest to forestall or postpone his own impeachment" ( Wall Street Journal editorial).