At the evening session there was again earnest discussion, and postponement was agreed to on the excuse that no bishop could be had in time for his degradation.
Avignon, however, was fortunately unhealthy, so that many prelates refused to attend, and Theodisius had a timely sickness, rendering a postponement necessary.
His conversion was, in fact, accomplished before the end of this year, although circumstances, as will be seen, compelled the postponement for a considerable time of the public and formal profession of his faith.
Postponement of the tax might be secured by ratifying the amendment.
The first of these bills prescribed the conditions on which a State lately in insurrection might secure representation in Congress, as well as a ten years' postponement of the exaction of any unpaid part of the direct tax of 1861.
It is the postponementof the inevitable that leads to the inevitability of postponement as a strategy of survival.
Such postponement of gratification is at the heart of the economic machine of the new age.
Of course she had expected, and got herself ready for, some thrust on the postponement subject.
She had no reasoned explanation of her postponement of it.
The postponement of this relief would not be desirable for several reasons.
I set out the whole position as I saw it, and strongly urged a postponement of the question until the Corps should have completed the vitally important series of fighting operations on which it was then engaged.
A postponement of action was authorized, and all the Battalions which had been threatened with extinction, with one exception, were permitted to remain intact during the remainder of the fighting period.
I suggested a postponement for a day to give this Division, which had ample resources in troops, another opportunity of retrieving the position.
No postponement to a more favorable time for raising funds for better terminals or four tracking the main line is possible; nor does its character as a public servant permit a railroad to curtail service.
The panic of 1907, with its forced postponement of ambitiously constructive plans, seemed to have passed.
It is only with the return of prosperity that the temporary postponement of this expenditure makes itself felt.
It is a noticeable fact that Italy took but a comparatively small part in the Crusades; and the long postponement of organic union between different parts of the magnificent peninsula is not without relation to this.
No constable or other bailiff of ours shall take corn or other provisions from anyone without immediately tendering money therefor, unless he can have postponement thereof by permission of the seller.
The only course she had to suggest was that they plead for a postponement on the ground that they needed more time in which to prepare their defense.
Under the circumstances, the best course seemed for her to ask for a postponement on the morrow to enable her to work up further evidence.
At the same time, he expressed an opinion, that if the Irish members pressed their request, it would be acceded to, provided those who were the cause of the postponement would take the responsibility of it.
Mr. Ward moved the postponement of the motion to Thursday, the 30th of April; the Premier agreed, and it was accordingly postponed.
The Republican postponement of the session for more than a year "does not arise from any design .
Indefinite postponement was voted by the dangerous majority of 2 out of a total of 118 members.
This postponement of the opening of the ports was the chief reason for sending to foreign countries their first embassy.
My counsel, General Barnes, pleaded for a postponement for one week, on the ground that he was busily engaged in the Sharon case.
General Barnes, however, appeared, demanding a postponement of the case, and intimating that a trial by jury would be demanded.
A death in the family of a Komaram involves, I believe, some postponement of the rites.
No, Graybody; there can be no postponement for the Fixed Period.
If there might bepostponement such as that, I doubt whether we should ever find the time for our inhabitants to come.
Camilla had been ready, and when, about the middle of the month, it was hinted to her that some postponement was necessary, she spoke her mind out plainly, and declared that she was not going to stand that kind of thing.
It affected to be very cheery and affectionate, beginning "Dearest Cammy," and alluding to the postponement of his wedding as though it were a thing so fixed as to require no further question.
Many valuable presents were officially made to him, together with P5,000 pocket-money to console him for the postponement sine die of the "settlement" question.
He wrote: "I regard any postponement as simply abandoning the project.
A postponement was necessary and two days later she revoked her confession.
The tribunals kept their unfortunate prisoners lying for months before granting the first audience and, as this required no preparation, its postponement was mere callous indifference without excuse.
At eight o'clock there would be postponement until the next morning.
It was for him to say whether the postponement asked should be granted.
At three o'clock, further postponement would be ordered until eight o'clock.
Johnson, and not President Roosevelt or Governor Gillett, or even Phil Stanton, is due the credit for postponement of consideration of Assembly Bill 14, a postponement which meant its defeat.
When they were left alone, Millard turned to Phillida, who had shown nearly as much disappointment over the possible postponementof Mrs. Hilbrough's project as the projector herself.
This was not heartlessness, but a condition of his living and working--a postponement of particular service, however important, in favor of the general serviceableness of his life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postponement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
