In fact, there was a device, when the culprit was below the age of fourteen, of postponing the sentence until he had attained that age.
A part of the Huguenot soldiers had, indeed, already been secretly introduced into the city,[910] when letters were received from the irresolute Antoine indefinitely postponing the undertaking.
Nothing would be lost by postponing the meeting for a week.
He gave us tersely and forcibly several excellent reasons for postponingour demonstration.
To discuss Davenant offered an excuse for detaining her, while postponing the blow for a few minutes more.
Thereupon the prelate, as if once more postponing the denouement with the secret enjoyment of an artistic diplomate, began to protest, raising his little plump hands with the anxious air of a man who considers everything lost: "Oh!
For this cause he had been postponing the promised visit, and thereby postponing the taking of the final step in the campaign of intimidation.
The postponing of the wedding-day to a date six weeks ahead roused him to an impatience he made no effort to conceal.
The death of a relative, necessarily postponing Nan's marriage, appealed to that curious conventional strain in him, inherited from Lady Gertrude.
This explained why Charlotte had not been in favor of postponing the try-out in case Marjorie were detained indefinitely.
They yearned to show the public that in postponing the game they had merely postponed the glory of winning it.
Are you discussing the question of postponing the game?
He said he had voted for postponing it till the 4th of March, with a view of getting rid of it; but since it must be considered, he wished it to be disposed of as soon as possible.
The House proceeded to consider the amendment proposed by the Senate to the resolution for postponing the time of adjournment: Whereupon, Resolved, that this House doth agree to the said amendment.
The question for postponing the unfinished business to take up this report was then put and negatived--43 to 31.
The question for postponing till Monday was put and carried.
Mr. DANA was opposed to considering the subject at present; he was for postponing till further information should be received.
A message from the Senate, informed the House that the Senate agree to the resolution for postponing the time of adjournment of the two Houses, with an amendment; to which they desire the concurrence of this House.
He was, therefore, for postponing the resolution till this was known to the House.
Instead of postponing the draft till after the elections, we ought now to have our ranks full of drafted men; and, at best, if they come at all, they will reach us when we should be in motion.
On the last occasion, a few days before moving, a circumstance occurred which came near postponing my part in the campaign altogether.
Chelford, like the lawyer, had heard from Mark Wylder that morning--a few lines, postponing his return.
Shortly, I began to feel insupportable disquiet at the thoughts of postponing this discovery.
I admitted any excuse for postponing my design, and gladly admitted any topic, however foreign to my purpose.
But in the case of Wenderholme, the habit of postponing a pleasure was greatly helped by an especial kind of pride.
How different from him, to whom she represented the very essence of that spiritual life which, in our several ways, we all try to live, which so few of us know how to attain by postponing its enjoyment for a few short troubled years.
Of rolling on and on, always postponing thought, and always racked with thinking; of being unable to reckon up the hours he had been upon the road, or to comprehend the points of time and place in his journey.
The general work of the first year, to be sure, if well done compensates in part for what is lost by postponing organic chemistry till the third year, but it can never entirely remove the loss to the student.
Selina came to the point at once, and postponing the discussion of Jasmine's chances in the eternal future asked her frankly how she proposed to provide for the temporal future.
Immediately after breakfast the next morning Lady Grant showed her sense of the gravity of the occasion by postponing her household duties until she had had what she called an explanation with her niece about her behaviour last night.
I admire some of Lloyd's lines on you, and I admire your postponing reading them.
The delay in settling the government afforded an excuse for postponing action upon the newly discovered French Decree.
Because ultimate surrender could not be averted, he characterized life lost in postponing it as blood shed uselessly.
There is one other fact that cannot be overlooked in estimating the degree in which the Liberal leaders are answerable to the nation for the fatal error of postponingeffective military preparations from June to September.
The trial of strength will be forced on you, and neither justice nor humanity will be served by postponing the trial if we start with a good cause.
The committeemen could hardly believe their eyes, because the telegram they had received from Mr. Tumulty had said absolutely nothing about postponing the strike.
Then the Conference Committee addressed a long letter to President Wilson, explaining in detail the situation as the union men saw it and outlining the reasons for not postponing the strike.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postponing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
