adjournment

How To Use adjournment In A Sentence

• His own case, asking for an adjournment in a matrimonial, was down for just before lunch, and immediately preceded by the criminal cases. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
• Adjournments of the Houses of Parliament take place all the time when Parliament is sitting.
• Morkel said at a media conference after the House's adjournment that the ANC's withdrawal of its motion amounted to "gutlessness". ANC Daily News Briefing
• The Congrefs met according to adjournment, and relumed, &c. as yefterday. A Collection of interesting, authentic papers relative to the dispute between Great Britain and America [microform] : shewing the causes and progress of that misunderstanding from 1764 to 1775
• It is important to note that the postponements or adjournments were all with the consent of the appellant, as we have already observed.
• Delays and adjournments dog the work of the courts, and the consequent administrative inertia can sap the energy and enthusiasm of even the most committed researcher.
• An adjournment was refused by the court and he was found guilty and fined.
• Matters, however, reverted to an interregnum, and owing to the repeated adjournment of the elections on one pretext after another, there were no fewer than fourteen interregna. The History of Rome, Vol. II
• If this continued he would be unable to get through today's part of the summing up before an adjournment was ordered at twelve-thirty. PROSECUTOR
• Ironically, in the light of later events, defending counsel then sought an adjournment in order to call character witnesses in mitigation.