The Lord's Prayer postpones these needs of bread and of forgiveness, and asks first of all for God's kingdom and His will.
When a man comes here and prays the Lord's Prayer, he, first of all, subordinates himself; he postpones his own needs.
Jeremiah postpones the introduction of personal religion to the future, regarding it as an ideal to be realised in the Messianic age.
The Lord is longsuffering, not willing that any should perish; and He postpones the day of decision that His goodness may lead men to repentance.
Why postpones he the union of those whose love he has approved?
And he brooks not their defeat; he frames delays and postpones the fitting season for battle.
If a man's coat is shiny at the seams and he postpones the new one that his wife may have an extra hat, she is delicately flattered by this unselfish tribute to her charm.
The involved x in the equation continually postpones the definite result, which may often be surmised, but never achieved.
He postpones a nomination till next year in order to oblige me.
And it is certain that the writer of a story cannot hope to do the best work if he postpones until the moment of actual writing the task of moulding and elaborating his basic idea with a view to giving it maximum effect.
This filling-in process may and should be performed partly at least before writing, but even if the writer postpones it until he is wrestling with the problem of execution, he must remember one thing.
Carbajal, whose meagre annals have scarcely any merit beyond that of a mere chronological table, postponesthe surrender till September.
The interest and the sinking fund for redemption have to be found by taxation, and so the borrowing process merelypostpones taxation from the war period to the peace period.
The process, therefore, which postpones taxation during the war period to the peace period seems to be extraordinarily short-sighted from the point of view of the nation's economic progress.
He thus completes the transaction C―M or the first metamorphosis of commodity iron, butpostpones his purchase until some other time.
In this form of sale the commodity completes its change of position; it circulates while it postpones its first metamorphosis, viz.
If he postpones his visit till he has completed five years of service, he receives a total of two hundred ninety-one days' accrued leave, vacation leave and travel time.
Clitophon is just on the point of being tortured for evidence when the arrival of a sacred embassy to Artemis postpones the case of Melitte and the execution of Clitophon.
Thersander in a long speech answers Melitte's challenge about Sosthenes with the result that the presiding officer pronounces sentence of death on Clitophon but postpones Melitte's case.
Garibay postpones the nativity of Ferdinand to the year 1453, and L.
The second and third of the four sections Matthew postpones till after his Sermon on the Mount.
At Mk xiii, 33-37, they come upon a section which Matthew postpones and which Luke has previously inserted.
Luke postpones this, having a more detailed and interesting account of the call of Peter which he will introduce later (Lk v, 1-11).
But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future.
There must not be secondariness, and 'tis a thousand to one that her air and manner will at once betray that she is not primary, but that there is some other one or many of her class, to whom she habitually postpones herself.
Once the family is provided with sufficient food for the moment the mother postpones further hunting trips until hunting becomes necessary, and busies herself with digging and burrowing in her underground dwelling.
Chance postpones this piece of luck, which I cannot expect to achieve at once, since nothing on the surface guides my search.
The posture of the scoundrelly insect is strikingly expressive; one reads in it the brutal desires of a creature in ambush, the cunning patience that postpones attack.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postpones" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
