He continually deferred the final steps; in the midst of his fears, like many a man who is in danger of shipwreck or of being dashed from his carriage by runaway horses, he had a clinging impression that something would happen to hinder the worst, and that to spoil his life by a late transplantation might be over-hasty—especially since it was difficult to account satisfactorily to his wife for the project of their indefinite exile from the only place where she would like to live.
He deferred the intention from day to day, his habit of acting on his conclusions being made infirm by his repugnance to every possible conclusion and its consequent act.
I have deferred it too long, and would gladly see it completed.
She was thinking of her evening dresses for the visit to Sir Godwin Lydgate's, which she had long been secretly hoping for as a delightful employment of at least one quarter of the honeymoon, even if she deferred her introduction to the uncle who was a doctor of divinity (also a pleasing though sober kind of rank, when sustained by blood).
" Some weeks passed after this conversation before the question of the chaplaincy gathered any practical import for Lydgate, and without telling himself the reason, he deferred the predetermination on which side he should give his vote.
He has deferred to me, you not being of age.
The letter, whence sprang all this felicity, was short, containing little more than this assurance of success; and every particular was deferred till James could write again.
The Clifton scheme had been deferred, not relinquished, and on the afternoon's Crescent of this day, it was brought forward again.
She couldn't be left at Bright River anyhow, no matter what mistake had been made, so all questions and explanations might as well be deferred until he was safely back at Green Gables.
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The annual bonus numbers lag behind what bankers and traders actually received in bonuses because they do not measure deferred stock awards, only cash and stock awarded from previous years but paid out — and taxed — in 2014.
Zhang Yinghua, a researcher with the World Social Insurance Center at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said income-tax deferred pensions are designed to encourage people to prepare for old age rather than as a way for high income-earners to avoid tax.
Sure, you can get a good degree, find a well-paying job, work until you're in your 60s, and then retire to enjoy the life you've deferred for 40+ years.
The more it explains that it has deferred taxation, not avoided it, the more conventionally corporate it looks.
They know that difficult decisions bring immediate infamy and deferred, if any, acclaim.
With just over two weeks until the opening ceremony in Rio, the International Olympic Committee had deferred the decision of whether to take aggressive measures to individual sports federations like the IAAF.
Bennet planned the courses that were to do credit to her housekeeping, when an answer arrived which deferred it all.
The annual bonus numbers lag behind what bankers and traders actually received in bonuses because they do not measure deferred stock awards, only cash and stock awarded from previous years but paid out — and taxed — in 2014.
Aleck, it's been a long wait, and full of heartbreak and hope deferred, but God knows I am happy now.
"If the efforts to boost demand are deferred for too long there is a risk that the headwinds get stronger," Jack Lew, US Treasury secretary, said yesterday at a G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bankers.
