Sentence examples for a preliminary proceeding from inspiring English sources

Although the hearing was just a preliminary proceeding to explain the charges to the defendants, including four Afghans arrested with the three Americans, Mr. Idema spoke for two hours.

It's only a preliminary proceeding for the purpose of articulating a formal charge to require someone to stand trial on a felony charge.

Construed in the light of the original and supplementary conventions with Italy, and of § 5270, Revised Statutes, we do not find that it was obligatory that the 'formal demand' referred to in the 1884 clause should be proven in the preliminary proceeding within forty days after the arrest.

Checking consistency is a preliminary step before proceeding to the network meta-analysis.

Sandusky's lawyer chose to waive a preliminary hearing and proceed directly to trial, or, when that day comes, maybe plead guilty.

Based on this dynamic similarity to larger, natural systems, we proceeded with a preliminary exploratory suite of experiments to constrain runout and erosion efficiencies of flowing ejecta.

issue notices to proceed with a preliminary design and any work related to preliminary design, to the extent that those actions do not limit any reasonable range of alternatives.

Sandy and Perez have not been booked or arrested, and a judge will decide if the case is to proceed at a preliminary hearing, the date for which has not yet been set.

In this case we did not proceed to a preliminary splitting of the read set; we preferred to perform a further assembly using both Illumina and 454 assembled sequences, obtaining a WGSAS.

In a preliminary assessment of an ongoing administrative proceeding against Facebook, the anti-monopoly body said it was not convinced that users had consented to Facebook tracking and merging their data, a practice which it believes "violates mandatory European data protection principles".

In its latest filing to the US District Court in New York, Kraft said it was seeking a preliminary injunction "to stop Starbucks from proceeding as if the agreement has been terminated, when, in fact, the contract is still in force". Kraft's lawyer, Marc Firestone, added that Starbucks was "proceeding with flagrant indifference to the terms of the contract and customary business practices".