Sentence examples for before the hearing started from inspiring English sources

Before the hearing started, the Occupy lawyers blasted the way in which the city raided the encampment.

He turned to the gallery and smiled, then appeared to fall asleep just before the hearing started.

Before the hearing started, Mr. Curry argued that the Supreme Court had already ruled that the risk of an innocent person might be executed did not make the death penalty unconstitutional.

While the arguments for and against the drilling technique have been essentially the same in the years-long debate in New York, spectators got a brief shot of excitement on Wednesday just before the hearing started.

While Bongiorno said before the hearing started that she hoped the case would be annulled because it was "littered with errors", it is extremely unlikely that the Italian court will throw out the charges.

kicked off the day by citing the 42,000 pages of documents senators were given hours before the hearing started.

But last September, just before the disciplinary hearing started which would ultimately led to him being handed a four-match ban, Terry quit international football and accused the FA of making his position "untenable".

Hours before the Senate hearing started on Thursday, Venezuelan security forces rounded up about 250 people and dismantled camps set up as part of protests against Maduro that began in February.

"It's not common to force hostile amendments into the bill, and it's particularly uncommon to force amendments before the hearing even starts," Wiener said.

NOMINEE FOR S.E.C. CHIEF SET TO WOO CRITICS  |  Mary Jo White, President Obama's pick to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission, is going before the Senate Banking Committee in a hearing starting at 10 a.m., with plans to deflect concerns about her ability to regulate the banks she recently defended.

One commissioner observed a young offender being instructed to sign a blank form acknowledging that he understood his parole conditions before the hearing had even started.