Sentence examples for friendly hearing from inspiring English sources

We've seen ludicrous arguments against the ACA get a friendly hearing in lower courts before.

Stephen Austin expected a friendly hearing about these grievances but instead was imprisoned in Mexico City for encouraging insurrection.

Assured of a friendly hearing there, the media industry seems to be in shock at the intrusion of politics from the outside world.

The introductions set the tone for a generally friendly hearing in which senators repeatedly compared him with the previous attorney general, Alberto R. Gonzales, to their evident relief.

I've never tried to understand how political parties work – it's never seemed like a worthwhile use of time – but the Liberal Democrats certainly gave us a friendly hearing in a fringe meeting at their conference yesterday.

But on Thursday, the investment firm used a friendly hearing as an opportunity to go on offense: testifying before a Republican-led House committee, Goldman Sachs's director of corporate engagement, Dina Powell, announced that her organization was expanding 10,000 Small Businesses, its program to assist entrepreneurs.

Just a couple of days before the telethon, the President of Bulgaria, Mr. Rosen Plevneliev and Minister of Justice Mr. Hristo Ivanov together with UNICEF Representative Ms. Tanja Radocaj opened UNICEF-supported child-friendly hearing facility for children victims of violence or witnesses of crime in Sliven.

He appeared before the Senate intelligence committee in a friendly confirmation hearing just one week before the CIA's response deadline.

Funded by Norway's ministry of foreign affairs, this friendly Babel heard an address from the foreign minister himself: Jonas Gahr Støre, who spoke of the written word's power to widen and deepen his small country's "footprint" across the globe.

If your phone is lost and a friendly stranger hears it ringing, he or she may be able to help get it returned to you.

In mid-August, the people of this fast-growing, yuppie-friendly city heard disturbing rumours that a group of clowns had begun loitering in the woods near an apartment complex.