Sentence examples for first proceedings from inspiring English sources

A few days before the first proceedings, Duran went underground again.

A few days before the first proceedings, Duran went into hiding again.

As more defendants slowly showed up, I sat and observed the first proceedings of the day in Criminal Court D. Three courtroom workers sifted through a docket that seemed to burst with files, quickly pulling out the next on the list.

The military trials would be the first such proceedings in more than 50 years.

At first, the proceedings were decorous, as the hostess (clothed) welcomed a small throng to her rooftop terrace overlooking the Hudson.

The charges mean that they may soon face a United States military commission, the first such proceedings since the end of World War II.

The Corrie family first began proceedings in 2005 – two years after their daughter's death – arguing in court that the military should have suspended the bulldozing operations until the protesters had been removed from the area.

Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff has begun the fight for her political life after the first impeachment proceedings for more than 20 years were launched against her in Congress.

Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo and his wife, Simone, have been formally charged with "economic crimes", the first legal proceedings against the couple since they were ousted from power and put under house arrest in April.

The actual article was published online first in Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences; PNAS; http://www.pnas.org), March 22, 2010.

One hard event was my brother's wedding, which occurred during my first divorce proceedings.