The risk of postponing action, he said, is that "by then it could be too late."

"Never underestimate the ability of the city's political actors to postpone action," he said.

Critics noted that he and his party had postponed action on such economic reforms for several years.

Certainly they postponed action, and seemed to live on in a dreamy paradise.

Others urged the board to postpone action and study the issue further.

"Fed officials will be hard pressed to postpone action any longer when they meet again in two weeks."

"Both sides, at the end, seemed ready to emphasize their differences, postpone further action and let the war continue," he said.

He called for postponing action until the end of this year.

Postpone action to give both sides time to think through the problem.

Given obesity rates in adults and kids, we cannot afford to postpone action.