Sentence examples for adjournment of three from inspiring English sources

By thus effectively preventing the Senate from going into recess (an adjournment of three days was considered too short to constitute a recess), the House had intended to prevent the president from using his recess-appointment power to place in office nominees who had been opposed by Senate Republicans, including nominees for two vacant positions on the five-member NLRB.

Beyond, an adjournment of the PN up to two days is possible; an adjournment of three days is only once possible during participation of the clinical trial.

The chairman, responding to a request for an adjournment of thirty days, made inquiry of counsel whether definite figures would be obtained from Norway in return for the extension.

The magistrate granted the state attorney's request for an adjournment of two days so that she could gather more facts on the case.

The assembly could only formally be called into session and adjourned by the governor, and provided one means by which the governor could control the assembly; Shute took issue with a temporary adjournment of six days.

the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are excluded in the computation of thirty, sixty, and ninety calendar days of continuous session of Congress.

the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are excluded in the computation of any period of time in which Congress is in continuous session.

For purposes of the preceding sentence, continuity of a session of Congress is broken only by adjournment sine die, and there shall be excluded from the computation of any period of continuity of session any day during which either House of Congress is not in session during an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain.

The adjournment won the support of three parties that backed the uprising that swept President Viktor A. Yushchenko to office in December 2004, suggesting that they could reunite to form a coalition and a government despite divisions and personality clashes.

If courts interpret the Recess Appointments Clause to require adjournments of, say, ten days or more in order to be triggered, there is no obvious bar in the text to the president adjourning Congress for ten days to accomplish precisely that end.

His formal disapprovals (in the form of two veto messages and one pocket veto, by which legislation is killed by the failure of the president to sign a bill before the adjournment of Congress) were questioned, but the two returned measures failed to command the two-thirds majority necessary to override his vetoes.