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

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

Adjournment was taken until the next day and after another long debate Seward had the fortune to persuade his associates to a hearty unanimity on December 26.

From Great Britain and the American Civil War by Adams, Ephraim Douglass