postponement

How To Use postponement In A Sentence

• A notice was posted on the box office doors to announce the postponement ‘due to inclement weather’.
• The Democrats realized the same thing, but rather than using this as leverage to get a long-term postponement to investigate the charges, the pressure really was just to have some kind of a hearing. Hill’s Sexual Harassment Charges 1 Year Ago
• After a year of construction and a weeklong postponement of the original opening date -- leaving die-hard fans champing at the bit -- Vivienne Westwood, the storied British fashion label, has finally opened its first U.S. store, on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood. Vivienne Westwood Opens First US Shop In West Hollywood
• As with any postponement, opinions vary as to whether or not the game could have gone ahead.
• This intelligence, which, at any other time, would have been received with rapturous enthusiasm, was listened to under the influence of a counterirritant already at work, with comparative calmness, and its only effect was to cause a postponement of the vote on the laborers 'bill upon the plea of the lateness of the hour, although not without strenuous opposition from the extreme right. Edmond Dantès
• In addition to the postponement of the family reunions, North Korea also said it wants Mt. Kumgang to serve as the venue for a series of scheduled inter-Korean talks, including the ministerial parley.
• In their 8th Rule, therefore, which declares, that while a question is bef ore the Senate, no motion shall be received, unless it be for the previous question, or to postpone, commit or amend the main question, the term postponement must be understood according to their broad use of it, and not in its Parliamentary sense. A MANUAL OF PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE
• But dark clouds coming in from the sea and the crackle of distant thunder forced a postponement. Times, Sunday Times
• It wasn't clear whether the postponement was the news over which the stock was halted. Dow Industrials Finish Up 80 Points
• Corporate sponsors of research sometimes demand the postponement, or even nondisclosure, of findings.