Sentence examples for asked for adjournment from inspiring English sources

Finally, defense asked for adjournment as a key witness fell ill.

There were the committal hearings four in total, months apart but Commonwealth prosecutor Andrew Doyle asked for adjournments each time, waiting on instruction from Attorney-General George Brandis.

Do you want to enter your plea today or are you asking for adjournment to consider the matter further?

He may have asked for an adjournment in a proceeding, but "never was I unaccounted for in a court appearance," as Mr. Adams has claimed, he said.

All he could do was tell his story to the judge, he couldn't argue the case law … We asked for an adjournment but the court said no.

He said that his seven-member team had been willing to continue talking but that the Cambodians had asked for an adjournment.

I do recall one day in the eighties when the sergeant discovered that key documents were missing from his file and asked for an adjournment.

At the conclusion of the testimony, Mr. Jeliffe, on behalf of the prosecution, asked for another adjournment, on account of the absence of Capt.

Ms. Adams, in a letter sent later that day to the administrative law judge handling the case, asked for the adjournment, though she cited a car accident on March 1 as the reason.

Hugo Groves, representing the club, had asked for the adjournment of the winding-up petitions after saying money from the sale of players had been used to reduce the outstanding PAYE balance.

PKF asked for an adjournment because of "a significant change in the terms of the transaction relating to REL".