The phrase "a proceeding" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to a formality or a process. For example, you can say: "The court hearing was a lengthy proceeding."
In that event, the military would be obliged to go ahead with a proceeding.
There are lots of things that we think and feel about advocates and parties during the course of a proceeding.
The Federal Communications Commission has just begun a proceeding to develop a better way to assess broadband performance, and we support this effort.
The law, AMD notes, does not require that a proceeding be "pending" before discovery may be ordered.
To make an exception of yourself is as immoral a proceeding for a nation as it is for an individual.
Tumor formation and progression is characterized by a proceeding degeneration of genetic material.
Even if one accepted the premise that science prepared for purposes of a proceeding should be treated differently than other science, there is no inherent reason that science prepared for a proceeding by opponents of the permit should be treated differently than science prepared by its proponents.
Once they failed doing that, they went into a proceeding that they control".
The commission declined on Friday to say whether such a proceeding was under way.
Mr. Pitt's awkwardness about presiding over such a proceeding could hardly be lost.
"He cannot be expected to participate in a proceeding in which conclusions have been reached".
