What's the difference between adjournment and dissolution?

Adjournment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.
  • (n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Proceedings were adjourned until 9.30am local time on Tuesday.
  • (2) It was on that basis that he resumed the adjourned inquest, at which Lugovoy is represented by counsel.
  • (3) On 10 December, he secured an adjournment debate to deliver the third speech in the Commons on schizophrenia since 1967, which will be his big focus for 2013.
  • (4) The court re-affirmed its ruling and parliament met for five minutes before adjourning, pending an appeal to a lower court.
  • (5) 11.19am BST State could ask for Pistorius' mental health to be assessed Nel says he wants to use the adjournment to study the provisions of Criminal Procedures Act, to see whether the prosecution might consider making a request for Pistorius to be assessed by the state: Karyn Maughan (@karynmaughan) Nel asks for break.
  • (6) A meeting on Friday morning of the OPCW's executive council in The Hague had been adjourned to work on the wording of the plan.
  • (7) Walker, who secured an adjournment debate in the Commons on schizophrenia in December, is exercised by the fact that the unemployment rate for people with this diagnosis stands at 92% – a figure he wants to see drop to 50%.
  • (8) The upheaval, which may spark protests, came after a court case launched by O'Neill's lawyers to stay the warrant for his arrest was adjourned until next week.
  • (9) Bob Watson, chief scientist at the environment department, Defra, and a former White House adviser in the mid-1990s, said it could be possible to adjourn the Copenhagen meeting if agreement is not reached.
  • (10) But when the court adjourned for lunch, June Steenkamp could be seen shaking her head and putting an arm around another family member, while Steenkamp's friend Gina Myers openly wept.
  • (11) The hearing was then adjourned for the judge and jurors to further consider the sentences for the remaining defendants.
  • (12) Day 18: 8 April 2014 The court adjourned early after the defence said Pistorius was too emotional to continue his testimony.
  • (13) Nel jokes that nobody has ever accused him of not "asking enough questions" before, but does not object to another 30-minute adjournment .
  • (14) He has had a stroke and is blind in one eye.” Asking for Reader’s sentence to be adjourned, Scobie said: “We suspect the prognosis for him, long term, is poor.
  • (15) Updated at 2.10pm GMT 1.47pm GMT The court has adjourned until tomorrow morning.
  • (16) Vos granted the adjournment "with considerable regret" to enable her lawyers to apply for a deposition from Macpherson, who is in Australia.
  • (17) The SDLP leader, Alasdair McDonnell, said: “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.
  • (18) It said the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, and foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, had sought a six-month adjournment in September in an attempt to allow the two countries “to seek an amicable settlement”.
  • (19) The Ukraine Freedom Support Act passed both the Senate and House of Representatives on Thursday, but because of a technical issue it returned to the Senate where it passed by unanimous consent moments before the chamber adjourned late on Saturday night.
  • (20) The judge gave his ruling in a packed courtroom and went on to read a summary of his lengthy judgment, before adjourning.

Dissolution


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.
  • (n.) Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.
  • (n.) Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution.
  • (n.) The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership.
  • (n.) The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death.
  • (n.) The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction.
  • (n.) The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution.
  • (n.) Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin.
  • (n.) Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The agent present in the serum which causes dissolution of the fibrin clot was isolated and identified as pepsinogen.
  • (2) A 2-fold increase in the dissolution rate was observed when the same number of particles was immobilized without macrophages.
  • (3) Unaltered surface enamel of extracted human teeth was subjected to tests of resistance to dissolution in 10 mM acetic acid at pH 4.0 and 10 mM EDTA at pH 7.4 in a miniature continuous flow system.
  • (4) At 30 days after injection both stains revealed cellular debris and glial reactions characteristic of cellular dissolution.
  • (5) The in vitro dissolution study carried out using dynamic dialysis revealed that the release of adriamycin from these particles follows a bi-phasic pattern.
  • (6) The retreating rate constants deduced from the dissolution results were well coincident with the values directly determined by the needle penetration method, suggesting good applicability of the proposed equation.
  • (7) However, in some patients absorption of the drug is markedly sensitive to changes in dissolution rate and new pharmacopoeal standards should not be defined until very rapidly-dissolving formulations have been studied.
  • (8) Instead, a repetitive, stepwise dissolution pattern was observed.
  • (9) In ancillary studies, multiple cycles of direct dissolution of UCB crystals revealed a progressive decrease in aqueous solubility of UCB as fine crystals were removed; this effect was minimal in CHCl3.
  • (10) Reductions in dissolution rates in a continuous-flow system could best be interpreted by assuming that they reflected changes in the area of the hydrophilic solid exposed to the solvent.
  • (11) Applications from Serbia, which account for 10% of the total, stem mostly from the dissolution of former Yugoslavia: payment of army reservists, access to savings in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, pensions in Kosovo.
  • (12) The minimal advantage in rapidity of stone dissolution offered by tham E over tham is more than offset by the considerably increased potential for toxic side effects.
  • (13) The differences in the amounts of rapidly releasable calcium were attributed to different kinetics of calcium phosphate and calcium oxalate dissolution.
  • (14) The steps in the model are the drug elimination rate in the precornea and anterior chamber, the rate of drug dissolution, the rate of drug penetration into the cornea, and the rate of drug transport into the aqueous humor.
  • (15) Two commercial slow-release potassium chloride tablets, Slow-K and Addi-K have the characteristics of slow-release in the different dissolution conditions.
  • (16) Two consequences of these conditions are (1) patient classification into syndrome types (e.g., phonological dysgraphia, agrammatism, and so forth) can play no useful role in research concerned with issues about the structure of normal cognitive functioning or its dissolution under conditions of brain damage; and (2) only single-patient studies allow valid inferences about the structure of cognitive mechanisms from the analysis of impaired performance.
  • (17) Areas suggestive of cellular dissolution and disorganization were also reported in experimental parathyroids
  • (18) Speaking in Adelaide on Thursday as the government struggles to turn around its polling in South Australia before a possible double dissolution election, the prime minister went on the attack and said Labor was making major policy announcements on the fly.
  • (19) Although all three formulations were shown to have similar dissolution profiles, dissolution of chlorpropamide was pH-dependent in vitro.
  • (20) However, if solubility is considered as a function of pH at equilibrium, i.e., the final pH after the dissolution products have entered the solvent--a model more akin to the in vivo situation--hydroxyapatite is the conspicuously more soluble of the two minerals.

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