Sentence examples for on adjournment from inspiring English sources

Article II Section 3 ...he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; If the House and Senate disagree on adjournment, the President can adjourn them.

A recess avoids the need for a vote on adjournment or postponement.

Recently, the government proposed new limits on adjournments and appeals, but lawyers considered this an abridgment of rights and, like outraged longshoremen, they are a group prone to go on strike.

Turkmen and Arab leaders in the city seized on the adjournment on Wednesday as evidence that when Parliament reconvened, lawmakers would not ignore their hopes to create a power-sharing arrangement in Kirkuk that they believe would give them more influence.

Kwame Raoul, a state senator who represents the city's South Side and was part of the negotiations, said he believed that the plan would be called for a vote in time for adjournment on Friday and that there was enough support to pass it in both chambers.

Well the legislature had "sine die," which is a Latin term for adjournment, on June 1.

The court, which has already given him a one-week adjournment, said the trial must resume on 2 October.

Ms. Johnson still had two months left on the adjournment period, said Jerry Schmetterer, a spokesman for the Brooklyn district attorney's office.

The government monopolises the agenda in the chamber, so that those matters that the House may be keenest to debate can be simply kept off the agenda or neutralised through the technical device of staging the debate "on the adjournment", which means there is no vote.

Vote on @RepThompson adjournment motion is 384-0.

House is voting on second adjournment motion.