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

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

Adjournment came mercifully at 1:27 p.m.�barely an hour before that day's regular session was to begin.

From Time Magazine Archive

I send you for your Amusement the Copy of a Vote passd by this Town at the Adjournment of their Meeting a few days ago and remain with Sincerity your friend.

From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 3 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo