The implication of the power of the deferred prosecution agreement should be clear: if the government decides that a company may be guilty under some vaguely worded statute or other, it can force a company to investigate itself and then dispense with the inconvenience that we call an actual trial.

FORBES: Justice 'Deferred'

Even the power arrangements for a future Bangsamoro government have been deferred, pending more negotiations and a plebiscite.

ECONOMIST: Making peace in the Philippines