Sentence examples for adjournments from inspiring English sources

That is because the constitution's adjournments clause mandates that neither chamber of Congress can adjourn without the other for more than three days.

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.

Since the trial began in October, the former dictator and his co-defendant half-brother have been having a high old time denouncing the American-backed tribunal as "the daughter of a whore", hurling abuse at the judges, staging walk-outs, railing against Iraq's occupation by "foreign invaders", demanding repeated adjournments and, now, mounting a hunger strike.

Holiday adjournments occurring in the middle of a session do not.

See articleAfter two adjournments, the trial of Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants for crimes against humanity got going, with Iraq's former leader lambasting the judge and denouncing the trial as theatre.

Considering the number of foreign journalists currently in Ukraine and the fact that there is manifestly no intention to free Ms Tymoshenko anytime soon the adjournments may well have spared the authorities another tidal wave of negative publicity.Yet the government still seems to think it can convince the West that it is justified in jailing Ms Tymoshenko.

Between 1867 and 1940, the annual sessions lasted on average four months; now they normally run a full year, with three long adjournments.

To further discourage adjournments, many amateur events added a modified form of sudden-death provision: After the second or third time control was reached, the players were given an additional lump of time, typically an hour, for the completion of all their remaining moves.

If they have the case adjourned or they seek an adjournment until the new year they don't.

Pandemonium inside the court twice forced the trial's adjournment.

In a Commons adjournment debate about the pension schemes of both the Telegraph and another business owned by the Barclay brothers, the Littlewoods store chain, the Conservative MP called the twins both "hypocritical" and "bullies".