Sentence examples for commitment proceedings from inspiring English sources

Did I know that commitment proceedings in the US take on average three to five seconds?

Mr. Schmidt has said he would have used the 30 days to start civil commitment proceedings against Mr. Alves.

The state could then begin civil commitment proceedings, but Mr. Candelaria wrote that state law did not provide for adequate treatment for children of this age.

In terms of specific measures to encourage competition regulators to keep up with digital developments, the report proposes a series of  changes — including increased use of 'interim measures'; time-limits on commitment proceedings; and strengthening the EC's 'sector inquiry' power.

The authors believe that this work is a "substantial undercount" (Paltrow & Flavin, 2013: 304), noting that the lack of searchable databases of cases, the confidentiality of family and juvenile court proceedings and civil commitment proceedings, the lack of media coverage of hospital detentions and compelled treatment, and lack of access to court records from Native American tribal courts.

"It seems that the minute His Holiness has been required to make any financial commitment to these proceedings, he has decided to simply throw in the towel," he said.

It is a rejection of the alarmist view that our fragile geopolitical position requires abandoning our commitment to preventing Star Chamber proceedings that result in arbitrary incarceration.

The U.S. State Department stated that it was "deeply disturbed" by the sentences and urged the Bahraini government "to abide by its commitment to transparent judicial proceedings, including a fair trial, access to attorneys, and verdicts based on credible evidence".

A State Department Deputy Spokesman, referring to President Obama's observation that such steps were at odds with the universal rights of Bahrain's citizens, noted that the cases would go through an appeals process and urged the Bahraini government to abide by its commitment to transparent judicial proceedings.

The director, Philip Haas ("Angels & Insects"), brings awkward setups and slack pacing to the proceedings but little commitment and next to no energy.

Paurobally, Rational Agents and the Processes and States of Negotiation, Ph.D. thesis, Imperial College, London, 2002, N. Fornara, M. Colombetti, Defining Interaction Protocols using a Commitment Based Agent Communication Language, Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (2003)]).