So in some contexts, "proceeding" seems interpretable as "going on to use a term consistently in further cases".
Malawi's government is notoriously corrupt: last year it chose to sell 167,000 tons of its emergency grain reserves, and the proceeds seem to have disappeared.
In the Connecticut mill towns that I represent, the manufacturing jobs are gone, and all the proceeds seem to have accrued to people who have Zip codes in Greenwich, not New Britain.
With casualties down, and the policy of gradual troop Withdrawal and "Viet namization" proceeding, the steam seems to have gone out of the anti war movement.
Wandering aimlessly and proceeding without goals seems to be the nastiest form of punishment for most people.
But Ms. Wade backtracked as fluently as she had come forward, declaring that she could not remember any examples and then proceeding, it seemed, to brush off the whole thing as another cheeky, walking-the-line incident in a career full of them.
He added: "That doesn't mean we cease to be republicans, myself, the prime minister and others".The Chaser's ejection from the royal proceeding seems unlikely to transform the republican cause in Australia, popular as the troupe may be.
Furthermore, as regards spatial justice, how do we proceed when this seems to come into conflict with social equity?
But I'm hopeful that our majority, Republicans and Democrats, today will proceed, because, it seems to me this is best for the country as well as for all the individuals who are affected".
In other words, the Princess's thoughts seem to proceed from language as much as her language seems to proceed from thought.
