The Security Council has the power to defer the warrant for Bashir s arrest for renewable periods of one year.

The European Union had therefore decided to introduce a proposal to defer the adoption of a resolution on that matter to the following year.

This is getting stranger and stranger. The Grand Mufti of Egypt is suggesting Muslim scholars issue a collective fatwa to postpone the hajj due to swine flu.

If, however, they are unable to reach consensus, this must not become an excuse for postponing action

As a result, Jews were highly oriented toward education, and willing to defer current pleasures and income to obtain more of it.

We also agree that, even if it would be preferable for action to be taken by consensus, that must not become an excuse for postponing action.

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.

Still, it would be a mistake for the Chinese government to treat the events in Thailand as an excuse to postpone political reform.

She would have been ready to defer action on the process to the next session which was why she abstained on the motion for deferment.

There is now great skepticism as to the substance of any fix especially one that relies on smoke and mirrors to postpone meaningful fiscal adjustment.

So critics of the indictment should at least be made to bear the burden of demonstrating to the Security Council that a peace settlement is likely if they wish the Council to act.

Many suspect that an engineered bloodbath that leads to army intervention, and the declaration of a national emergency, could serve as a pretext to postpone the October 2007 elections.

Women who plan to postpone marriage while building their careers are far more likely to want to ensure that they can avoid or end an unintended pregnancy.

The Secretariat informed the General Assembly at its fifty ninth session (A 59 353) that, as the annual session of the Board of Trustees of the Fund had been postponed to October 2004, a comprehensive report would be submitted to the Assembly at its sixtieth session.

Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.

We believe also that attention must be paid to the Secretary General's view that inability to reach consensus must not become an excuse for postponing this important action.

It would be very preferable for Member States to take this vital decision by consensus, but if they are unable to reach consensus this must not become an excuse for postponing action.

He also states that, although consensus would be preferable, if we are unable to reach consensus, this must not become an excuse for postponing action (ibid., para.

This is why Mr. Papadopoulos in his speech states that the existence of the United Nations negotiating framework cannot serve as a pretext for postponing or refusing o fulfil these obligations (by Turkey within the context of the EU) .

In thinking, for example, about American predominance in the world today, it would be nice to know when it will decline, and whether the United States can do anything to postpone the inevitable.

Information Minister Donald Buchanan told The Gleaner Power 106 News yesterday that the Electoral Commission s recommendation for the postponement of the General Election should have been submitted to Cabinet for consideration, before it was sent to the Governor General for a final decision.

The bill states that any defect in the casino ballot pamphlet shall not cause the election to be delayed or invalidated and that copies of Proposal A are available at public libraries and on the World Wide Web for voters to read.9

Because of the difficulty of putting banks through a bankruptcy like procedure, there is an incentive, like that which arises in the context of sovereign debt, to postpone the painful process of imposing losses on bondholders and instead provide a bailout and hope for the best.

Although no one can be sure how this complex problem will be solved, here is my best guess Soon after the election, the US Congress will vote to postpone the fiscal cliff for about six months to allow time to work out an acceptable legislative solution.

However, if, for whatever reason, we are not able to reach consensus, that must not become a justification for deferring action on the very purpose of the September summit the achievement of meaningful progress and measures to attain the Millennium Development Goals.