He was certain she would be back before his self-imposed deadline.

The military has failed to meet several recent self-imposed deadlines for a rescue.

But a self-imposed Dec. 22 deadline passed without a deal.

His self-imposed deadline is two years, but he reported making "a rather a slow start, as always."

He said, however, that work would continue beyond the self-imposed deadline if there was a chance the venture could win more support.

"And so I haven't put any self-imposed deadline on the option."

Both sides said they were optimistic that a deal could be reached within a self-imposed deadline of a year.

Eventually he decided to take a two-year break from teaching, then extended the self-imposed deadline by several years.

He wanted this book finished by the end of the month, his self-imposed deadline.

President Clinton has set a self-imposed deadline to decide this summer whether to build a national missile defense system.