"adjourn by" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used when describing the time or manner in which a meeting or session is adjourned. Example: "The council meeting will adjourn by 6 PM to allow members to attend the budget hearing."
With election-season politics leaving little room for compromise on policy issues, the Senate, too, could adjourn by the end of next week.
House Democratic leaders tentatively plan to adjourn by Thursday, allowing lawmakers to return home and focus on their re-election campaigns.
Mr. Engel said he had left Washington in mid-afternoon after being assured by the Republican leadership that Congress would adjourn by 6 p.m.
Congress proposes to adjourn by the end of next month but it can scarcely take action on all the matters commended to its attention by the President when he took office.
"I realize there is considerable pressure for the Congress to adjourn by the end of next week," Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, wrote in a letter to the Senate leaders of both parties.
If lawmakers want to adjourn by Friday as planned, they will have to adopt practically a year's worth of legislation in one week -- including major energy and Medicare bills and the majority of the 13 spending measures for federal agencies.
While the police investigation continued, an inquest was opened and adjourned by the Leeds and Wakefield coroner, Philip Gill.
"Most cooperatives' bylaws permit meetings of shareholders to be adjourned by motion made at the meeting," he said.
The hearing will be opened and adjourned by North West Kent Coroner Roger Hatch at Gravesend Old Town Hall and is expected to last about ten minutes.
A judicial review lodged by Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso of the Philippines was adjourned by an Indonesian court on Tuesday and will now be reviewed by the supreme court.
The Balcombe case has been adjourned by the judge until 8 October, and the council must decide by then whether it is in the public interest to proceed.
