254 examples of adjournment in sentences

The doctor stood up, and there was something about the action which announced the adjournment of the meeting.

At the adjournment for luncheon the Claimant muttered as they passed along, "There's Toole come to learn actin' from 'Arry Orkins.

The regular hour of adjournment was at four.

In case of disagreement between the houses as to the time of adjournment, the president may adjourn them.

5. Adjournment.

If any bill shall not he returned by the president within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall he a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the congress, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.

But the president can easily kill any bill which he does not like, if it is presented within ten days of the adjournment of congress, simply by keeping it.

The resolution to adjourn is excepted, because, as we have seen, the time for adjournment is generally a matter of agreement between the houses.

I lay before you treaties of commerce negotiated with the Kings of Sardinia and of the Netherlands, the ratifications of which have been exchanged since the adjournment of Congress.

This was not ratified before the departure of our late chargé d'affaires from that country, and the copy of it brought by him was not received before the adjournment of the Senate at the last session.

To the Senate of the United States: I communicate to the Senate sundry papers, in further answer to its resolution of the 30th of December, 1839, which have been received from the governor of Florida since the adjournment of the last session of Congress.

The First Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society, with the Speeches Delivered at the Anniversary Meeting held in Chatham Street Chapel in the City of New York, on the sixth Day of May by Adjournment on the eighth, in the Rev. Dr. Lansing's Church, and the Minutes of the Society for Business.

Held by Adjournment in the City of Philadelphia, from the sixth to the eleventh of June, inclusive, 1831.

During his wife's adjournment to the ladies' cabin, this person, I am obliged to record, had become boisterously drunk,a condition in which the contradictory elements that make up the characters of most men are generally developed to an instructive extent.

Our diplomatic relations with foreign powers have undergone no essential change since the adjournment of the last Congress.

"Silence is golden" is the motto here whilst the viands are being discussed; but afterwards, when the Homeric desire of eating and drinking has been expelled, an adjournment to the club may lead to a smoking concert, and, once started, there are very few Cotswold men who cannot sing a song of at least eighteen verses.

She said casually, picking up her fan and evidently preparing for some sort of adjournment: "Oh, Arnold, don't be so absurd.

The appearance of the Governor about an hour afterwards, was the signal for an adjournment to dinner.

What is the duty of each house in respect (1) to its membership, (2) its rules, (3) its records, and (4) its adjournment.

He may summon either or both houses of Congress to an extra session, and if the two houses disagree with regard to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he thinks best, but of course not beyond the day fixed for the beginning of the next regular session.

He essayed to move the adjournment in order to discuss the situation of our troops in Russia, but was reminded that there was already a motion on the Order Paper dealing with that subject and standing in his own name.

His inquiry whether the Recess could start three days earlier, in order that Members might take advantage of the Epsom carnival to study the social habits of the people and form an opinion as to the possibility of raising revenue from taxes on racing and betting, was in better vein, and reminded old Members of the days when Lord ELCHO (now Lord WEMYSS) used annually to delight the House with his views on the Derby adjournment.

Adjournment is a term not recognized in Masonry.

Any attempt, therefore, on the part of the lodge to entertain a motion for adjournment would be an infringement of this prerogative of the Master.

This should make an adjournment unnecessary.

254 examples of  adjournment  in sentences