continuance
IPA: kʌntˈɪnjuʌns
noun
- (uncountable) The action of continuing.
- The period during which something continues or goes on; duration.
- (countable, law, chiefly US) An order issued by a court granting a postponement of a legal proceeding for a set period.
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Examples of "continuance" in Sentences
- I sense that Sen. Clintons continuance is not good, but that's just one guys gut feeling.
- Felix chops the log in continuance at a similar break in the tune the same voice heard again, nearer.
- The only variance of note was that in Term 22, providing for the short-term continuance of statutes relating to the export marketing of salted fish.
- The hurried music from the close of the First Act to play in continuance until this scene is discovered, and Frankenstein enters, hastily, to centre of stage.
- Whether those lives were wasted, or whether their brave example was not worth more to the world than a few years more of continuance, is not the question here to be asked.
- With such proofs of the uncertain continuance here of the great ornaments & blessings of society, let not little circumstances induce us to neglect the tender of their friendship.
- Although the question of a continuance is one for the sound discretion of the court, whenever it appears that the court has abused its discretion and denied the accused a reasonable opportunity to prepare for trial or otherwise perfect his defense, the proceedings should be disapproved.
- Subject to the provisions of said Section 93 and in continuance of the principle heretofore sanctioned under the North-West Territories Act, it is enacted that the Legislatures of the said Provinces shall pass all necessary laws in respect of Education; and that it shall therein always be provided
- If it clearly appears that the accused has not in fact been misled by the form of the charges and specifications, and that a continuance is not necessary for the protection of his substantial rights, the court may proceed immediately with the trial upon directing an appropriate amendment of the defective charge of specification.
- Elihu maintains that afflictions are to the godly disciplinary, in order to lead them to attain a higher moral worth, and that the reason for their continuance is not, as the friends asserted, on account of the sufferer's extraordinary guilt, but because the discipline has not yet attained its object, namely, to lend him to humble himself penitently before God (Isa 9: 13; Jer 5: 3).