Sentence examples for proceeding like a from inspiring English sources

Despite those odds, the St . Louiscase is proceeding like a make-or-break trial.

Starting small and proceeding like a tortoise had been the key.

The more serious of the two charges was the one the prosecutors chose: conspiracy to impede a federal judicial proceeding, like a grand jury investigation.

In the second, a judge is reduced to tears at a surreal, outdoor legal proceeding, like A Midsummer Night's Dream of judicial madness.

Ultimately those instructions -- which required the jury to find the firm guilty if it found that one person had persuaded others to alter or destroy a document in order to impede an official proceeding like a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation -- were fatal to Andersen, Ms. McKay and Ms. Sorrell said.

It proceeds like a combination of cookbook and travelogue.

A Slack conversation proceeds like a group text.

The department's agenda proceeded like a well-oiled machine.

Actually, he puts it even more strongly: "The United States has proceeded like a third world country.

The right option is not to proceed like a bunch of cowboys, gleefully administering the penicillin ourselves.

It proceeds like a piece of fiction (by David Foster Wallace, actually — the one moment in the book where the comparison seems fair).