adjournment

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Adjournment would not have added anything, an adjournment would have been there and when the adjournment was over we would still have been drifting toward suspension.

From The Guardian • Sep. 10, 2015

Republican Leader Watson dolefully announced: "Adjournment is still a long way over the horizon."

From Time Magazine Archive

Adjournment pressures last week only heightened the ill feeling between Hill and White House that has hampered the legislative machinery all year.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ala. Towards Adjournment President Roosevelt discovered last week that it was much easier to call Congress into special session in March than it was to send it home in June.

From Time Magazine Archive

Appointed Bills advanced through stipulated stages, and OLD MORALITY, modest in mien, even after the triumph of matchless management displayed in brief Session, moved Adjournment over Christmas holidays.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 20, 1890 by Various