Use "postponed" in a sentence

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

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2. invite him to the funeral, long may that day be postponed

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3. “Did they call it off? Was it postponed until more candidates might arrive?” He proposed

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4. postponed as the servants brought more trays of food

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5. tasks that couldn’t be postponed, and Jean decided to

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6. She had postponed telling Zarko that she had already told her family that they wanted to get married

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7. They were about to pass sentence to put him to death, when the matter was postponed until the next day

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8. The more intelligent class roundly berated General Shafter, when his threat of bombardment was postponed from day to day

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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”

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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

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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!”

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13. had postponed because Pete was coming to see us, turned out to be the

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14. “Couldn’t you have postponed the mission? It was my

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15. you how to use this dumb cash register, he wouldn’t have postponed our date

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16. She hadn’t gotten Tee to change his mind about Florida, but they had postponed the move until after the Christmas holiday

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17. All other work was postponed,

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18. “Prayer was postponed because of me?”

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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

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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

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22. You will be able to take the step that he has postponed

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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

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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

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25. In a deal with the White House this tax was postponed till

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26. against these cuts and in the eleventh hour they are postponed to the

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27. Institute, a dream that has been postponed for 6 years and WOW it was a marvelous learning Opportunity

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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

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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

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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

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32. Important financial decisions should be made before the 6th or postponed to next month, when Mercury starts to move forward again

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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

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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

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35. Their market date had been postponed when they were suddenly required to provide additional research

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36. The workout shorts and sport bra indicated that he had postponed her trip to the gym

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37. If it hadn’t been for the newspaper men that were in town, the festival would have been postponed for a few days

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38. Apparently, their companies had postponed the business trip that they should have been on

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39. School was postponed for all children until they reached the age of 15

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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

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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

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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

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44. The first thing that she did was to set a definite date for the postponed telepathic operation

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45. telling us that His Kingdom is going to be postponed for another two thousand years? What of

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46. Believe it not, the event was held rather than postponed

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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

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48. It was time to face an important exam in cellular biology, one that had been successfully postponed up to that day

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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

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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

51. This caused Operation Sealion to be postponed until September 27th, the last day for favourable tides

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52. Hitler postponed the invasion "until further notice” and ordered the dispersal of the invasion craft

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53. This meant that the invasion could not possibly take place in May 1944 and had to be postponed by a month

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54. Was it to take prisoners who had knowledge of Operation Overlord? If such prisoners had been taken should not SHAEF consider calling off the whole invasion? But if the invasion was postponed one more time then in all probability it would not be launched in 1944 and there would be hell to pay with the Soviets

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55. rock or are we as resilient as the ants? Instead of moaning over postponed plans or the loss of

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56. CONCERT WILL BE POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE

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57. As a result, the invasion of Burma had been postponed indefinitely and the British forces in India had been left nearly alone

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58. The next day, a man and woman in the street are reading a newspaper article with a headline that reads: DIANE D'S COUSIN DANA GETS ARRESTED FOR BEING SUSPECTED OF BEING BEHIND STRAY BULLET ATTACK ON FEMALE OFFICER! FEMALE POLICE OFFICER'S TRIAL DATE CANCELED AND POSTPONED, DUE TO HER ALMOST GETTING HIT WITH STRAY BULLET! “This article says Diane D's cousin Dana got arrested yesterday!” the man says

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59. “No! All these patients here have clinic appointments this morning! Now their appointments might have to be delayed or postponed until the police investigate what might have happened to that storage room door and to the storage room!”

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60. “And they said Madilyn Lewis's upcoming concert at Madison Square Garden have to be canceled or postponed for a few or several months

61. Barry then shouts, “First The Punky Gurlz concert in Paris had to be canceled and postponed, now Madilyn Lewis's concert has to be canceled and postponed, all because of the girls!”

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62. large, the trial was postponed indefinitely

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63. Now the Dark Age arrived stronger than it should have because of him, washing over a country and a species, to begin a fate postponed

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64. Recently I was told that a decision on a major project had been postponed because the sponsor, the COO, had moved to another position within the organisation

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65. The government postponed the closures and many perceived a government climbdown and NUM victory

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66. hoped the meeting could be postponed to a later time and that,

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67. Similarly, the obedient well-doer will witness the past and the future, that is to say, he will view his actions as well as the result and reward he postponed for himself

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68. that the case has been postponed for twelve days

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69. that the court date has been postponed

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70. Both projects were postponed by legal difficulties that Declan says have now been cleared

71. “Actually, it was postponed until today,” Dianne replied

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72. “I thought because of the rain you might have postponed, but I can see that you brought your grunts

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73. "But he postponed it so he could meet both of you," Kate finished for him

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74. “Perhaps, but if entropy can be slowed, it can be postponed for a long long time

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75. very clear in his mind about the fact that judgment about a justified action can be postponed but

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76. It's doubtful if I'll be able to recharge any of my batteries, and showers, and any other form of washing, will have to be indefinitely postponed

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77. Tabitha was the one who had the murder weapon and in her plea agreement she had to testify against the two, but since Tabitha’s miraculous escape, because she was still at large, the trial was postponed indefinitely

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78. was over, but they postponed the full realization a little further as

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79. It could not be postponed any longer

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80. whatever reasons it has simply been postponed

81. The first track meet of ‘86 was held on a day so windy and cold it was sure that spring had been postponed

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82. Her preference, repeating to the President what she’d told her senior staff hours earlier, was to issue summonses ordering these people to appear in court at a later time, a time that, she silently hoped, could be postponed enough times so some new crisis would draw the public’s attention and she would not have to prosecute generally law-abiding citizens, prosperous citizens, for doing what she felt in her heart she would have done had she been in their shoes at the time

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83. And if We postponed their punishment until a stated time, they would say, "What holds it back?" On the Day when it reaches them, it will not be averted from them, and what they used to ridicule will besiege them

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84. The prospective advantages of any opinion, moreover, must be postponed to the general interests of truth

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85. The question of the measure of truth in such a belief may be postponed

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86. 2008 but the meeting was deliberately postponed

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87. Dana and Landa's court date have to be postponed

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88. They believe the Kingdom of Heaven was to be the Old Testament kingdom of David restored, but was postponed to the Millennium after the Jews rejected Christ as their king

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89. Premillennialists say the church age was an afterthought after the establishment of the kingdom was postponed because the Jews rejected Christ as their king, and the Old Testament did not prophesy of the Church

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90. But, when the Jewish nation as a whole rejected Christ, the fulfillment of His kingship was postponed until the final culmination of world history