Bob wanted to adjourn the meeting before dinner. From LearnThat.org.
Ntsebeza said he had used the word "adjourn" advisedly in ending the day's proceedings. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Mr. President, I move that this Congress do now adjourn. From Wordnik.com. [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference
The fear was that Congress might adjourn without a conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
Between 4 and 5. the Gov 'adjourn'd to Ten a-clock Satterday mornings and presently rose up and went away. From Wordnik.com. [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference
Page 41 striking out all after the word "adjourn" and inserting "sine die. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Called Session of 1862] Reference
A motion will now be made to adjourn, and carried. From Wordnik.com. [Why and How : a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada] Reference
A motion was made that we adjourn and go to Cincinnati. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
MR. WEBER: We adjourn until this evening at the banquet. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference
If there is no discussion, a motion to adjourn will be in order. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference
And with that, shall we adjourn with our standard best quote poll?. From Wordnik.com. ['Lost' Dueling Analysis: 'The New Man in Charge'] Reference
At length, on the day before the Congress was by law to adjourn, the. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
Having taken this action, they decided to adjourn until the following. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
They plotted to open the meeting, fire Ronald and then quickly adjourn. From Wordnik.com. ['They're Eating Each Other.'] Reference
It took only a minute to elect Christy and adjourn the ill-fated meeting. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Wales Senior] Reference
The motion to adjourn was then put and lost by a vote of 50 nays to 38 ayes. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
"Let us adjourn to the Hôtel de Ville, Lamartine at the head!" said M. Bocage. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
Let us adjourn our final sentence upon him, until we hear that Omniscient award. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
After class, Conroy would regularly adjourn to the Mill, the local watering hole. From Wordnik.com. ['Mentor,' a memoir by Tom Grimes, reviewed by Michael Dirda] Reference
To adjourn (in committees, to rise), or to take a recess, without limitation A E F. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Motion to adjourn can be amended when there is no other business before the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
If these were not at hand he might adjourn the case for their production, specifying. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Legislatures are now in session, some of which will adjourn within two or three weeks. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
The Senate is expected to adjourn at the end of next week until after the Nov. 2 elections. From Wordnik.com. [Senate Vote on Tax Cuts Unlikely Before Elections] Reference
MacDANIELS: I will adjourn this particular session and give the gavel to our new president. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference
The motion to adjourn has been carried unanimously and this Congress is therefore adjourned. From Wordnik.com. [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference
As there were no other cases on the docket, I ordered the sheriff to adjourn court (to the bar). From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
By then, Lopez's supporters, who were visibly bored by the length of the spectacle, moved to adjourn. From Wordnik.com. [Morgan Pehme: Vito Lopez: The Plot Thickens] Reference
The Legislature was in session that winter and was obliged to adjourn and go to San Francisco to finish its labors. From Wordnik.com. [California, 1849-1913; or, the rambling sketches and experiences of sixty-four years' residence in that state] Reference
But there isn't much time between Labor Day and early October, when the Senate will adjourn before midterm elections. From Wordnik.com. [Senator should release hold on blocking federal oversight of Metro system] Reference
Legislators do not adjourn until December, but it's anyone's guess whether they'll take up such sensitive legislation by then. From Wordnik.com. [A Split In The Ranks] Reference
Some lawmakers want to hold a vote on the Obama plan -- it would presumably fail -- and then adjourn until after the election. From Wordnik.com. [Snowe suggests she's open to deal on tax cut extension] Reference
That's the same party that had moved to adjourn 13 times in the month of July before they pulled this stunt by refusing to leave. From Wordnik.com. [Will Congress Finally Pass an Energy Bill?] Reference
It gets worse: Lawmakers have only four weeks to tackle these massive issues before Columbus Day, when they adjourn until November. From Wordnik.com. [Tax WarsGearing Up for the] Reference
January, and cannot adjourn them for a longer period than thirty days, nor more than once during a session, except with their own consent. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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