1.   But though generational issues can be deferred, they cannot ultimately be avoided.

2.   In keeping rates unchanged Tuesday, the Fed seemed to be deferring the issue rather than settling it.

3.   In one camp are those like Haim Ramon, a government minister who oversees Jerusalem affairs, who say the thorniest issues should be deferred.

4.   The commission has said it intends to reform access charges, but Thursday it deferred the issue to a proceeding later in the fall.

5.   This diplomatic strategy deferred the issue with an expectation that political and economic development would eventually draw the two sides into some permanent accommodation.

6.   They would also have to do that knowing that the endgame was no longer in sight, deferring the issues of Jerusalem and the refugees, for instance.

7.   Trust me, he said, to place peacemaking first and defer domestic issues.

8.   Public Bank, which revised its issue price twice, had at one point actually decided to defer the issue.

9.   At the conference in Dallas, bishops deferred the issue of how to hold themselves accountable and directed an internal committee to review the issue.

10.   Deferring the issue gives APEC nations at least a year to get past some immediate political hurdles.