If you set deadlines for yourself, that wouldn't happen.

如果你给自己设定进度的话，这种事就不会发生了。

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Set deadlines for everything. Don't let tasks go on indefinitely.

给所有事情都设定一个期限。不要让工作无期限地进行下去。

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We must now, together, move beyond words and set deadlines for our actions.

我们必须联合起来，立即摒弃空谈，确定最后的行动时限。

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"If you do not set deadlines in this town, things do not happen.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

The country has since missed deadlines for presidential elections set by the peace accords of 2007 and late 2008 that appointed rebel leader Guillaume Soro as prime minister in a power-sharing agreement.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Team-set deadlines were missed, and the site initially worked fine on one browser but not another.

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And while many technology acquisitions for trading or customer management systems can be postponed indefinitely, regulators often set deadlines.

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In Lisbon, France had resisted attempts to set deadlines on the matter.

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