Adjournments is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Adjournments meaning
plural of adjournment
Using Adjournments
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of adjournment
- In the example corpus, adjournments often appears in combinations such as: several adjournments, adjournments in, unnecessary adjournments.
Context around Adjournments
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Adjournments
- In this selection, "adjournments" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, short, unreasonable, unnecessary, bello and earlier stand out and add context to how "adjournments" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2016 many adjournments and delays and a couple adjournments bello said. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "adjournments" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with adjournments
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The protesting MPs, however, refused to return to their seats, forcing many adjournments. (13 words)
The panel also granted adjournments to the petitioners and respondents in line with their request to ensure fair hearing. (19 words)
The court’s President, Mr Akin Akinniyi, resolved the differences between the estranged couple after several adjournments and interventions. (19 words)
In this way, the players would never be desperately short of time, but games could also be completed more quickly, doing away with the need for adjournments (in which a game is left incomplete to be finished at a later date). (41 words)
Opposition benches wanted the Select Committee motion to be voted first but Chair said it would be taken up only after the debate, forcing multiple adjournments earlier in the day. (30 words)
However, after several adjournments without him appearing in court when service had been served on him, the prosecutor urged the court to issue a bench warrant for his arrest. (29 words)
Example sentences (14)
As in: Lady Hallett, presiding, kept calling short adjournments, quite possibly to clutch hold of the sal volatile bottle and give it a good sniff.
Justice Deshmukh noted that the petitioner failed to produce any statistical data to demonstrate that unreasonable adjournments were granted by the family court.
The judge, however, expressed dismay that since Nov. 22, 2022, the police lawyer had only called two witnesses, with several adjournments.
Civil judge of Narsinghgarh Kapil pointed out problems asking for what to do under such a situation when litigant demands more time leading to unnecessary adjournments.
The panel also granted adjournments to the petitioners and respondents in line with their request to ensure fair hearing.
When the matter resumed last week after a couple adjournments, Bello said the preferred custodian of the children is the mother.
However, after several adjournments without him appearing in court when service had been served on him, the prosecutor urged the court to issue a bench warrant for his arrest.
Opposition benches wanted the Select Committee motion to be voted first but Chair said it would be taken up only after the debate, forcing multiple adjournments earlier in the day.
He said that no party in the case was entitled to more than three adjournments in the course of the hearing.
She told CBC News that since the trial began in July 2016, many adjournments and delays were allowed to accommodate Neurauter’s hockey schedule, something his father denies.
The court’s President, Mr Akin Akinniyi, resolved the differences between the estranged couple after several adjournments and interventions.
The protesting MPs, however, refused to return to their seats, forcing many adjournments.
With the establishment of special courts and mandate on the judges to deliver their ruling within a specific frame of time, the issue of incessant adjournments would be addressed.
In this way, the players would never be desperately short of time, but games could also be completed more quickly, doing away with the need for adjournments (in which a game is left incomplete to be finished at a later date).
Common combinations with adjournments
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: