His case was not heard in the local state court, but in the separate federal system, run by the Department of Justice – the forum for some of the most serious cases, many involving organised crime or terrorism.
Indeed, the formal House-Senate conference meeting, usually an elaborate parliamentary ritual with reams of legislative paperwork strewn across cluttered conference tables, instead served mostly as a live, televised forum for some of the most powerful Democrats and Republicans in Congress to trade barbs.
On Wednesday night in the Bronx, at one of the most energetic mayoral debates in an often-lackluster series of forums, some of the candidates at times took a beating from rivals or hecklers during a discussion of issues deemed important to Latino voters.
At the Davos Forum some leaders of the largest financial institutions have voiced support for the proposal.
In September and October 2008, by-elections in the Port Macquarie area at both federal and state level gave a new forum to some of the players in the controversy.
The initial dreamers were Harvey, an English and creative writing teacher at DePaul, and his friend Hallie Gordon of Steppenwolf Theater, who wanted to give a public forum to some of the city's most desperate voices.
Mr. Caraballo said Mr. Ferrer would have access to pulpits in several churches, holding forums in some of them to answer questions from voters.
That sparked a brouhaha in social media forums after some of the telecom company's loyal BlackBerry client base reacted angrily to the offer, which they perceived as a slight.
Amar'e Stoudemire had dominated the game and thrilled the Mediolanum Forum, borrowing some of the adulation reserved for Gallinari, the hometown kid.
I agree that the G8 is an inadequate forum but some of the bigger developing countries need to actually live up to their responsibilities as well here.
Louis J. Lamatina, Mr. Moldow's lawyer, concedes that the forum and some of its language came to look much "like a bathroom wall".
