This served for the present, however, and successive postponements were obtained.
On the plea of the time required for copying, successive postponements had been obtained, the latest of which expired in April, 1650.
These postponements were not always due to poverty.
He was in a gentle stew already, apprehensive of a disturbance of the serenity precious to scholars by postponements of the ceremony and a prolongation of a father's worries.
And she dropped poison on it to still its reproaches: bidding herself remember her fatal postponements in order to preserve the seeming of consistency before her father; calling it hypocrite; asking herself, what was she!
The life of a politician, especially of an Irish politician, is one long series of postponements and compromises and disappointments and disillusions.
On July 19th Redmond asked that a date should be fixed for the introduction of the proposed Bill, and next day he renewed his demand, urging that the constant delays and postponements were "seriously jeopardizing the chance of settlement.
If by this Convention which is now proposed we can secure substantial agreement amongst our people in Ireland, it will be worth all the heartburnings and postponements and disappointments and disillusions of the last thirty or forty years.
I was on my way to you--after repeated delays and postponementsof your own making.
After several postponements the work was produced in a bungling style on Sept.
But postponements took place, and the work was not produced until June 10.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postponements" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
