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To adjournment
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The state of being adjourned.
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If I decided to plead not guilty, Karen suspected that the prosecution, rather than go to trial, would eventually offer to reduce the sentence to adjournment in contemplation of dismissal (A.C.D ., essentially a six-month probation.
At the discretion of the presiding officer, the Senate may adjourn at any time, unless a majority of members present object to adjournment.
The Colt bill, which had originally failed during the Arizona Legislature's rush to adjournment, was resuscitated and passed in the wee small hours of the morning just before everybody left town.
But the meeting, which lasted about 40 minutes from prayer to adjournment, provided a window into the county-by-county fight for delegates that the Republican presidential race has become.
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Despite the club putting forward a solution, utilising funds generated from its assets that would have enabled repayment of its debt in full over a period of a few months, HMRC refused to agree to an adjournment to give effect to the plan.
If all Senate Republicans do not agree to allow an adjournment vote, it is unclear whether Majority Leader Reid could muster the 60 votes needed to adjourn.
The trial itself can take two years to complete due to frequent adjournments, and even after it has concluded, remandees can expect to wait another 12 months before judgment is handed down.
It has already led to the adjournment of a trial at the International Criminal Court against Kenya's deputy president, William Ruto, who was allowed to fly home from The Hague.
"In light of the substantial and constructive proposals made by the defendants, all parties have agreed to seek adjournment of the federal court proceedings in F.T.C. v. BP Amoco and Atlantic Richfield Company in order to conduct negotiations," Richard G. Parker, director of the F.T.C.'s competition bureau, said in a statement referring to ARCO's incorporated name.
The presiding judge agreed to an adjournment until Monday.
I would not consent to [the adjournment] because I was very disturbed by the report from Visitation Alternatives describing Miss Borukhova's behavior during the visitation".
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