Listen, kid.

We'll have to postpone that soda, I'm afraid.

Would it be convenient to you if we adjourned now?

Now, you sit down there, and we'll stick this out and sort of see what happens.

We'll just have to put it off till next week.

Could I suggest that we postpone discussion of this?

Let us not defer taking action at this time.

I submit that we engage and delay until reinforcements arrive.

Can we put this off till 2020, 2030, 2050?

Moreover, it is relatively easy to postpone lowering oil consumption.

We cannot postpone a session or defer it without getting the approval of the other lawyer.

The Chairman I thought we should postpone discussion of the issue of the cycle, et cetera, et cetera.

Some suggest that, given the economic slowdown, we should put global warming on the backburner.

Now, either we go on the 6th, with only marginal conditions or postpone again in the hope of getting perfect conditions.

But interim resolution of water issues does not need to wait for final resolution of the major issues.

If we do not start to combat the flow of greenhouse gas emissions now, the stock in the atmosphere will continue to grow, making future action more difficult and costly. Other public expenditure can be postponed, but delaying climate change measures is a high risk, high cost option.

He says that he will not have an answer until tomorrow morning, so do we continue discussing this proposal, or do we postpone discussion of it?

Except we've been so busy giving away a trillion here, a trillion there, that we've brought that date of reckoning forward to about 2017.

It refers also to a deadline for the submission of draft resolutions this year, we found that we had to postpone the deadline, because the original deadline cut through the second phase.

Unless there can be agreement on a substantive agenda, there is a real risk that we will have to cancel or postpone the 2005 substantive session altogether.

I realize, of course, that the circulation of that draft may create some kind of impression in the minds of many of us, but I would suggest that we defer any discussion of the draft until we get to that point on the agenda of this meeting.

So, if somehow they told us that this was a right angle, even though it doesn't look anything like a right angle, then we would have to suspend our judgement based on how it actually looks and say, huh I guess maybe those things are perpendicular.

Some suggest that, given the economic slowdown, we should put global warming on the backburner. On the contrary, retrofitting the global economy for climate change would help to restore aggregate demand and growth.