Some cases, the president could. Actually, the president has a right to recommend other cases to the entitle who could postpone the carrying out of a sentence. The entitle is national parliament.
Let's postpone the presentation.
Filing an appeal will postpone the execution of a prisoner sentenced to death.
One of his favorite tricks is to postpone any payments that are due.
"We will have to prostpone the cricket match."
The match was scheduled for saturday, but bad weather forced the officials to postpone the game for a week.
It is called a stay.
Rather than postpone the football game, the clubs played in another nearby city.
They didn't have time to have the meeting today so they had to postpone it.
Due to muddy field conditions, the little league players will postpone their game until next week. We have to postpone the party because our entire family is sick with the flu. If you haven't finished your data summaries then we need to postpone our meeting. Because of recent budget cuts, we'll need to postpone the class trip.
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I was carrying water in a jug
Please don't overload the carrying capacity of the boat.