The phrase "action adjourned" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal contexts to indicate that a meeting, hearing, or session has been temporarily suspended or concluded.
Example: "The judge announced that the action adjourned until the following week to allow both parties to gather additional evidence."
Alternatives: "case postponed" or "session suspended".
The action was adjourned until Monday to give the hippies time to appear in court.
In one of its last actions before adjourning for the year, Congress last week specified more than 600 health care providers that will receive federal largess in the coming year.
Meanwhile, as the Legislature adjourned without action, recriminations began.
For all the fanfare of Mr. Yates's appearance, it was a routine court appointment that turned out to be much ado about nothing, since the case was adjourned without action until April 7.
As for any implication that there is a "rush" to enact health-care legislation, President Obama may have been responsible for that, at least in part, by calling for final action before the House and Senate adjourned for August.
The French members of a cycling team at the heart of the Tour de France drug scandal in July will miss next month's world championships, after the French Cycling Federation adjourned disciplinary action against them.
Beauregard (who by then had embraced the St. Andrew's cross) wrote Gen. Joseph E. Johnston that he had recommended to Miles "that we should have two flags — a peace or parade flag, and a war flag to be used only on the field of battle — but congress having adjourned no action will be taken on the matter — How would it do for us to address the War Dept.
Because Congress is about to adjourn, action on the bill is unlikely until after the presidential election.
It's unlikely that the House and Senate will take any action before they adjourn for several weeks leading up to the November elections.
