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  • adjective Not postponable.

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un- +‎ postponable

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Examples

  • I'll give you a phone number in a separate post so it stays private, but I'm only home until 10 a.m. tomorrow, then need to fly to NY for unpostponable family crisis--Kathryn will be a great spokesperson, if this comes through.

    The Battle For Tassajara Hot Springs 2008

  • We realize that this fraternal relationship creates unpostponable obligations for us.

    CEMA MEETING 1984

  • For that reason, if the survival of mankind now at risk would not lead us to brandish the banner of peace as the very core of the stand of the movement of nonaligned countries, our unpostponable economic needs would also lead us to defend peace as our first and most immediate demand.

    7 MARCH NONALIGNED SUMMIT SESSIONS 1983

  • Namibia to their independence and the unpostponable need for the black men and women of South Africa to achieve a status in which they are considered equal and respected human beings, as well as that the conditions of respect and peace for all countries of the region be insured.

    MEETS OFFICIALS AT UN:DEPARTS FOR HOME 1979

  • What must be the unpostponable out for a situation that is by itself already one of misery and hunger leading with every passing year to more misery, more hunger?

    CASTRO ADDRESS COMMEMORATES PLAYA GIRON 1967

  • Among other things we had a problem with a very difficult but unpostponable solution.

    CASTRO INTERVIEW ON RETURN FROM SOVIET TRIP 1963

  • There were times when, after paying all the unpostponable claims, he had twenty-five cents left, or less, as the net result of his week's toil.

    Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money James Parton 1856

  • This is the so-called perfect crisis that goes beyond the US borders, affects the entire global economy and has forced us to assume the unpostponable responsibility of making precise and radical decisions without affecting the sacred commitment that links us to our people especially to the big majority left unassisted and impoverished.

    Green Left Weekly issue #746 2009

  • This is the so-called perfect crisis that goes beyond the US borders, affects the entire global economy and has forced us to assume the unpostponable responsibility of making precise and radical decisions without affecting the sacred commitment that links us to our people especially to the big majority left unassisted and impoverished.

    Green Left Weekly issue #746 2009

  • The movement condemned the US vetoes that allowed South Africa to elude international sanctions, and we are certain that the seventh summit conference will also condemn the United States 'attempt to tie up the necessary and unpostponable departure of South African troops from Namibia, where they remain in violation of the decisions and principles of the international community, with the permanence of Cuban internationalist troops in Angola, summoned there by its legitimate government, with the support and endorsement of the fifth summit conference of Colombo, to defend the territorial integrity of the Angolan nation.

    7 MARCH NONALIGNED SUMMIT SESSIONS 1983

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