| One in three deaths was postponable, usually for public health reasons. |
| The Institute of Health and Welfare estimates that 80 per cent of health related conditions in old age are preventable or postponable if corrected in time. |
| Now, you have to remember that the automobile is the most postponable consumer purchase there is. |
| In addition, there is the Treasury pressure, acute at the moment, to look critically at all avoidable or postponable expenditure. |
| He didn't know how long he'd knelt on the grass having extraneous and postponable thoughts, but he feared that it was a lot more time than it had felt like. |
| As one of the most postponable purchases a consumer can make, it tends to get hit first by tightening credit markets and rising unemployment. |
