Sentence examples for hearings given from inspiring English sources

Mr. Sellers said the trial court could rely on statistics culled from company databases, which he said were more reliable than the evidence that might be presented in individualized hearings given the available information about particular pay and promotion decisions.

As we wrote in our report in May, based on our observations of the hearings given to detainees at the U.S.-run detention facility at Bagram: "the current system of administrative hearings provided by the U.S. military fails to provide detainees with an adequate opportunity to defend themselves against charges that they are collaborating with insurgents and present a threat to U.S. forces".

The court hearings gave Ford a chance to expound his ideas about business.

Into his late 90s, he spoke at public hearings, gave lectures and typed letters to legislators.

One reason was that the warning hearings gave the gang members a sense of what to expect.

Mothers involved in family court hearings gave graphic descriptions of the "torture" of being questioned by abusive men.

The ICTJ's report says the commission's hearings gave those accused of violence a platform to make "self-serving" justifications without facing rigorous questioning.

The hearings gave Americans their first glimpse of the traders accused of poisoning financial markets with toxic mortgage derivatives and then making billions for the firm as the markets collapsed.

Al Gore, however, voted to put Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, as did all the Democrats in a 98-to-0 Senate vote; 11 Democrats, despite the Anita Hill hearings, gave Justice Clarence Thomas his seat in a 52-to-48 52-to-48 52-to-48

This week's news that his wife, Virginia, had left voice mail for Anita Hill, asking her to apologize for "what you did with my husband" at the confirmation hearings, gave Ms. McEwen an unexpected opportunity to talk about Justice Thomas, the man she was romantically involved with for "six or seven years" in the 1980s.

"I sat down one night, unsolicited, and wrote a 12-page memo suggesting to him how he should handle himself in his confirmation hearings, giving him some sterling advice on what he ought to do with the department once he got confirmed," said Mr. Cheney, clearly relishing his retelling.