1.   If an exceptional event occurs, such as the death of a family member, you can ask for the court case to be postponed.

2.   A judge postponed the case until next month, requesting more evidence.

3.   All graduated top of their class with degrees in having cases postponed until all parties die of old age.

4.   Duberstein postponed the case for a week because Michael Forth, the lawyer for Coney Island hospital, was ill and did not show up.

5.   He was supposed to go on trial in September, but his case has been postponed twice, and he has fired his lawyer.

6.   In the following weeks, the lawyers said, Charles twice appeared in court, but the case was postponed both times at the request of the police.

7.   Knight said Coetzee could ask the court to postpone his case until his testimony is heard by the Truth Commission.

8.   On Tuesday, Glavin appeared in federal court, but his case was postponed for two weeks.

9.   Overworked judges have been occasionally tone-deaf to the complexity of their problems, and children languish in foster care because cases are frequently postponed.

10.   That case was postponed until next month, but the intensifying protests and emboldened competition are increasing pressure on the drug industry.