Sentence examples for long proceedings from inspiring English sources

Even streamlined, the there is no estimate of how long proceedings will take.

But as the commission's staff statements during the course of its long proceedings amply demonstrate, the commissioners actually spent most of their time studying what went wrong.

This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market.

Enough there, one might conclude, to satisfy the sense of balance and sporting justice a feeling of a certain fitness of things that most followers of the game are able to find at the close of each summer's long proceedings.

The girl presented herself at Mrs. Pitre's home, and was surprised when the lady of the house, upon opening the door, scrutinized her carefully and said, before any introductions could be made, "How many months?" Mrs. Pitre was voluble and amiable during the long proceedings that finally led her to the gallows, and got on splendidly with the various detectives who questioned her.

There's no set timeframe for EC antitrust investigations — with the complexity of the case and how co-operative (or otherwise) those being investigated are determining how long proceedings last.

Ms Amiel, who had been weeping on occasion throughout the morning-long proceedings, fell sideways in her seat when it was announced her husband would be returning to jail.

In the dining room, fishing nets, shells and fishing artefacts dangling from the ceiling make it clear that seafood has long dominated proceedings here.

The long legal proceedings (which inspired Thackeray's novel "The Luck of Barry Lyndon") would eventually help to alter British marital law, then based firmly on a husband's unquestioned dominance.

Across the Rotunda, Senator Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat and majority leader, seems content to achieve little, both as a way of avoiding filibusters and embarrassing votes for incumbents up for re-election, as well long floor proceedings that serve only to keep members off the campaign trail.

After a six-year global search and long court proceedings, Mr. Conway said, he had recovered the money from trusts and securities and Mr. Brennan's interests in real estate, a casino boat in Florida, and a golf course in Colts Neck, N.J.