Tom is always postponing things.

We can't avoid postponing our departure.

We can't avoid postponing our departure.

But is early admission to EMU preferable to postponing membership?

Neither putative EU membership nor today s favorable security conditions justify postponing enlargement.

Many governments waste good economic times by postponing the reforms needed to build a prosperous future.

If not, they will stay with their parents, at the cost of postponing their own reproduction.

And there are really two games in town, according to most people, with regard to postponing aging.

The IMF board must learn that muzzling the IMF staff contributes to crisis by postponing a reckoning.

By postponing what you have to do, you run the risk of never being able to do it.

Ignoring the poorest nations means postponing a much larger crisis which will lead to famine, unrest, and massive migration.

Hamas is well aware of Fatah s disarray, and accuses Abbas of postponing the legislative elections for partisan, not national, reasons.

Postponing structural reforms eventually constrains any economy s performance, as we saw in Japan in the 1980 s and 1990 s.

To the Kremlin s rulers, this may seem an acceptable cost for retaining power, but postponing reform will only aggravate Russia s countless problems.

Postponing the second consumption tax increase seems like a good compromise between pushing Abenomics to escape velocity and maintaining long run credibility.

The cuts should sustain private demand this year and next, but at the cost of postponing improvements in private saving and indebtedness.

Sweden initially appeared to take a liberal stance, but is now postponing opening its borders and may tighten migrants' access to welfare benefits.

The Obama administration s efforts to deal with the real estate market have been a dismal failure, perhaps succeeding only in postponing further declines.

But the Kyoto rules will make an almost imperceptible difference (postponing temperature increases from 2100 to 2106) at a substantial cost (about 150 billion per year).

1. Upon ratification, States Parties may make a declaration postponing the implementation of their obligations under either part III or part IV of the present Protocol.

It is hard to imagine that manufacturers are not now postponing orders of capitals goods, and that new home sales in America are not dropping right now.

On the policy side, the US, Europe, and Japan, too, have been postponing the serious economic, fiscal, and financial reforms that are needed to restore sustainable and balanced growth.

For American drug companies, this agreement extends the time period during which brand name pharmaceuticals have exclusive access to markets, postponing the entry of generic drugs and thus limiting competition.

And Greece is in the throes of a humanitarian crisis today because the inevitable restructuring of its debt has been used as an excuse for postponing that restructuring ad infinitum.

Postponing the exit after the June election with a new government committed to a variant of the same failed policies (recessionary austerity and structural reforms) will not restore growth and competitiveness.

Were negotiations over EU admission of the Baltics near conclusion, postponing Nato membership could be justified because the EU, with its new defense identity, is now both a security and prosperity union.

But the ECB has made it clear not only that interest rate cuts are not on the table it is merely postponing, not abandoning, the interest rate increase originally planned for September.

Over and over again, Turkey being the latest example, the IMF is mute for too long. The IMF board must learn that muzzling the IMF staff contributes to crisis by postponing a reckoning.

Second, and more difficult, the oil sheikhs and other producers of fossil fuels must be talked into postponing their extraction plans or, better yet, not to extract some of their resources at all.

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.

After two months of protesting in the streets and occupying almost 200 schools throughout the state of São Paulo, Governor Geraldo Alckmin announced today he is postponing the state's reorganization plan until at least 2017.

The cuts should sustain private demand this year and next, but at the cost of postponing improvements in private saving and indebtedness. Although the dollar has been depreciating for a year, continuing growth in domestic demand will likely push the current account deficit above 5 of GDP.