Sentence examples for abbreviated session from inspiring English sources

Mr. Harrell said lawmakers could deal with only a limited number of items in their abbreviated session this week.

There was no trading on Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, and only an abbreviated session on Friday, with very low volumes.

Auto executives, however, are concerned that Congress will not complete the loan financing during its abbreviated session this month.

The abbreviated session further reinforced suspicions that the whole exercise is really aimed at getting a swift vote this year on term limits and nonpartisan elections.

The Dow Jones industrial average declined 22.61 points, or 0.2percentto to close at 10,571.11, after an abbreviated session that ended at 1 p.m. United States markets will be closed today for the holiday and re-open tomorrow.

The bond market held an abbreviated session, ending at 2 p.m. Trading will resume in Tokyo and London overnight and then continue here today, closing again at 2 p.m.

On the New York Mercantile Exchange, which has had abbreviated sessions from 10 45 A.M. to 1 45 P.M. ET since reopening after the terrorist attacks, the November contract for Brent crude oil closed down $3.96 to $22.01.

LITTLE FALLS, N.J. — In full goalkeeping regalia — long pants, long-sleeve shirt and padded gloves that had to be peeled off — Frank Rost stood tall in the 100-degree heat Friday morning, beads of perspiration cascading down his face after the Red Bulls' abbreviated practice session at Montclair State University.

The super-abbreviated session may have been the shortest in the exchange's nearly century-old history.

Approximately 10% of the sessions had to be abbreviated.

Approximately 10% of the sessions had to be abbreviated (e.g., because women had to leave or the PA had conflicting appointments with other participants).