Sentence examples for hearings surrounding from inspiring English sources

He took special interest in veterans affairs, assuming a leadership role in hearings surrounding the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014, which was passed to address the improprieties present in the management of Veterans Administration hospitals.

Congressional hearings were surrounding concerns that children would re-enact the violence they saw onscreen, or that parents and kids would stop communicating in favor of easy entertainment.

The debate over My Grandfather's Son set the country back sixteen years: the resurrection of the controversy over the Anita Hill hearings proved that the partisan anger surrounding those hearings had never dissipated.

On Wednesday, Mr. Tarloff looked more slender than he had during earlier hearings, his long hair surrounding a bald spot on his head.

Probing the dramas surrounding deportation hearings, this timely novel follows the intersection of three lives after a cargo ship arrives in Canada, carrying Tamil refugees fleeing war in Sri Lanka.

She has said that her opposition to the Iraq resolution grew out of her expertise from her work on the Intelligence Committee, which recently completed public hearings into intelligence lapses surrounding the Sept. 11 attacks.

Mr. Christie's use of the contracts has become an issue in his campaign to unseat Gov. Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey, so the hearings, and the jousting surrounding them, were charged with political tension.

Mr. McGreevey is likely to face pressure to deal with the state police early on because legislators and civil rights leaders are calling for more hearings into the circumstances surrounding the shooting of three unarmed men by troopers during a traffic stop on the New Jersey Turnpike in April 1998.

Miller wrote The Crucible--the most frequently performed of all his plays--in response to the atmosphere of suspicion and treachery surrounding the hearings led by Senator Joseph McCarthy's House Committee on Un-American Activities (House Committee on Un-American

Thanks to the publicity surrounding the Gathings hearings, Fawcett sold another million.

Although the circumstances surrounding the disciplinary hearings for Robinson, Williams, and Griffiths are different, the outcomes could have similarities.