Sentence examples for off the hearing from inspiring English sources

— BEN PROTESS The committee chairman, Senator Tim Johnson, Democrat of South Dakota, kicked off the hearing praising Ms. White.

Wilson started off the hearing by saying that the legislation to let gays stop lying while they risk dying was rushed through in an "undemocratic" lame-duck session.

Tim Johnson, the committee's chairman and a Democrat from South Dakota, kicked off the hearing by delivering an impassioned defense of the consumer bureau.

Mr. Waxman said he had offered Mr. Clemens the chance to call off the hearing after depositions were taken last week, but that Mr. Clemens wanted to make his case publicly.

Representative F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. of Wisconsin, the committee chairman, had invited Mr. Ashcroft to testify, but he called off the hearing after the attorney general did not submit testimony in advance, which would have allowed lawmakers to prepare their questions.

Against Democrats' pleas, Barrasso cut off the hearing after three rounds of questioning. .

The federal judge who signed off on the hearing, Frederic L. Block, said the case was "being settled for, relatively speaking, chump change".

But recently organizations representing audiologists and hearing aid manufacturers have complained to the agency that some P.S.A.P. manufacturers are essentially marketing the devices as low-cost off-the-shelf hearing aids without calling them such.

She was suspended by the GMC last September and could have been struck off at the hearing in Manchester.

"If we put off the eligibility hearing, we delay the whole process," he said.

Jim Hartland, who has rented properties in Boulder and Denver, kicked off the public hearing by encouraging the council to work even faster to pass the new regulations.