We should probably postpone the competition.

But what if a breakup can only be postponed, not avoided?

In Bolivia, the populist communitarian movement is in the saddle, but is failing to do much more than shelve reform projects.

This can delay for years the expenditures required to protect people s health and the environment.

It is too soon to tell if Iran s desire to obtain nuclear weapons has been delayed.

Many claimed that the Kremlin was delaying the inevitable but ultimately would not block independence.

Stressing the new Fed chief s professionalism may only delay the moment when this lesson is learned again.

Yet China's rulers are right to postpone the decision to float.

This would be bad news for the German economy, which could delay possible ECB interest rate hikes.

But a society s decision to waive punishment for human rights violators is not necessarily a sign that its moral awareness remains stunted.

By contrast, Milosevic has taken advantage of the ICTY s procedures to delay his trial, while challenging its jurisdiction and legitimacy. This plays well back home, where indicted war criminals are still touted as war heroes.

By contrast, Milosevic has taken advantage of the ICTY s procedures to delay his trial, while challenging its jurisdiction and legitimacy.

The combination of credits from the other eurozone countries and lending by the IMF may provide enough liquidity to stave off default for a while.

In fact, social democrats were regarded as more dangerous than hard line conservatives, because their moderate left wing talk only served to postpone the revolution.

He must lend money to Peter to liberate him from the usurers to whom he was paying ten per cent. a month but he must neither reduce or postpone the payments of rent by the peasants who were in default.

Humanity has faced threats to its existence and the health of the planet before, yet we have managed to avoid the apocalypse, or at least postpone it, through ingenuity and invention.

This means that Nigeria would be able to postpone some payments, but will be charged full market interest rates on the postponement, and is expected to eventually pay off the debts in full.

But coalition rule can also often mean governance of the lowest common denominator, as resistance by any of the government s significant members to a policy can delay or even thwart it.

Moreover, while an air strike might set back Iran s program by a few years, it would solidify nationalist support for the government and the nuclear program, particularly because one attack would not be enough.

In America, the Republican congressional caucus is just saying no no to short term deficit spending to put people to work, no to supporting the banking system, and no to increased government oversight or ownership of financial entities. And the banks themselves are back to business as usual anxious to block any financial sector reform and trusting congressmen eager for campaign contributions to delay and disrupt the legislative process.

And the banks themselves are back to business as usual anxious to block any financial sector reform and trusting congressmen eager for campaign contributions to delay and disrupt the legislative process.

At the same time, international expert on issues of reproductive health in the Russian Federation, Boris Lordkipanidze, noted that the introduction of a new system for assigning transsexual criminals to a penal colony could significantly delay the start of the convicts serving their sentences.

Together with The Tap Tap band, we tend to joke about it, saying that we might be the only band on earth that could draw enough positive energy to hold off or avert the end of the world completely.

Yet, even if everyone (including the United States) lived up to the protocol s rules, and stuck to it throughout the century, the change would be almost immeasurable, postponing warming for just six years in 2100.