Sentence examples for * adjournment in from inspiring English sources

It was the second adjournment in the case.

Their agreement, accepted by Judge Burke, was an "adjournment in contemplation of dismissal".

She went from cubicle to cubicle, guiding us toward a plea: Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal, or A.C.D.

On Sept. 15, he was given a six-month adjournment in contemplation of dismissal, a law enforcement official said.

Chances of passage before Congress's scheduled adjournment in October "would be slim at best," Mr. Shelby told reporters after the committee's hearing in Washington.

He may have asked for an adjournment in a proceeding, but "never was I unaccounted for in a court appearance," as Mr. Adams has claimed, he said.

Collins said the matter would be raised in an adjournment debate in the Commons on Monday.

Could they interest the Serious Fraud Office as it considers whether to launch a full criminal investigation in the UK - and whose ability to do so will be raised in an adjournment debate in the Commons on Monday?

Walker, who secured an adjournment debate in the Commons on schizophrenia in December, is exercised by the fact that the unemployment rate for people with this diagnosis stands at 92% – a figure he wants to see drop to 50%.

The stalemate ensures that Congress, which has already set a post-World War II record for the latest adjournment date in an election year, will remain in session at least one day longer.

They carve out long periods of time off around President's Day, Easter, the Fourth of July, and Memorial Day, sprinkling in three- and four-day weekends, and often set an ideal adjournment date in early October; this is their constitutional prerogative and by now a custom.