continuance

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We will request a continuance while we search for the witness.

The district attorney asked the judge for a continuance so they could develop some evidence.  (source) Scott Pratt, An Innocent Client, 2013

I went to court that Wednesday, did the paperwork, asked for a continuance, got one, and forgot about it, for the most part.  (source) John Grisham, Sycamore Row, 2014

Mr. Dillard, since you're the one who asked for a speedy trial, I won't expect to see you back in here asking me for a continuance.  (source) Scott Pratt, An Innocent Client, 2013

Typically, there were backlogs, delays, and continuances.†  (source) John Grisham, Sycamore Row, 2014

Nobody benefits by the continuance of this war.

The females choose to mate with these imposing alphas and are thereby inseminated with the best DNA around, which is passed on to the female's offspring—one of the most powerful phenomena in the adaptation and continuance of life.  (source) Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing, 2018

He said, "As Mrs. Washington was unwilling to leave me surrounded by the malignant fever which prevailed, I could not think of hazarding her and the Children any longer by my continuance in the city, the house in which we lived being, in a manner, blockaded, by the disorder."  (source) Laurie Halse Anderson, Fever, 1793, 2000

The essentials of the vampire story, as we discussed earlier: an older figure representing corrupt, outworn values; a young, preferably virginal female; a stripping away of her youth, energy, virtue; a continuance of the life force of the old male; the death or destruction of the young woman.  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

That he was overcome by the wine just swallowed, was the idea which most readily presented itself; and, rather with a view to the preservation of my own character in the eyes of my associates, than from any less interested motive, I was about to insist, peremptorily, upon a discontinuance of the play, when some expressions at my elbow from among the company, and an ejaculation evincing utter despair on the part of Glendinning, gave me to understand that I had effected his total ruin under circumstances which, rendering him an object for the pity of all, should have protected him from the ill offices even of a fiend.†  (source) Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson, 1850

After what she thought was a suitably tactful pause, she said, "How do we know that ghosts are the continuance of dead people?"  (source) Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1975

He would have to explain the discontinuance of function in the capsule in order to make his report jibe with the capsule's log.†  (source) Roger Zelazny, My Name is Legion, 1976

...son of Arliden, is admitted into the University for the continuance of his education on the forty-third of Caitelyn.  (source) Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind, 2007

Immobility being the chief characteristic of that whole which the person formed portion of, the discontinuance of immobility in any quarter suggested confusion.†  (source) Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, 1878

Ellen provided strong motivation for the continuance of my silent quest to escape from Iran.  (source) Betty Mahmoody, Not Without My Daughter, 1989

Fatigued as she had been by the morning's walk they had no sooner dined than she set off again in quest of her former acquaintance, and the evening was spent in the satisfactions of a intercourse renewed after many years' discontinuance.†  (source) Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813

…and last of all, and above all, recommending to us a compliance, a compromise, an acquiescence in the continuance of the sin, on the chance of a marriage which, thinking as I now thought of her brother, should rather be prevented than sought; all this together most grievously convinced me that I had never understood her before, and that, as far as…  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

What a world we live in, he commented, sighing, when everything possibly even the continuance of the human race lies on the shoulders of those teenagers.†  (source) Michael Scott, The Alchemyst, 2007