Sentence examples for proceedings hardly from inspiring English sources

Oddly, while the Oscar presenters and the show's host will occasionally remark on the inordinate length of the proceedings, hardly anyone will ever break that electronic fourth wall to suggest that anyone anywhere views this event as anything less than a peep at the gods and goddesses disporting themselves on Olympus.

"The value of openness in judicial proceedings can hardly be overestimated," the court wrote.

Some of the proceedings were hardly a bundle of fun, but, with all that lecturing experience, Maurice gave an outstanding and optimistic talk at a time when there was excessive gloom in the air about the aftermath of the 1967 devaluation.

And the cost of public utility "proceedings" is hardly trivial.

The "big reveal" comes so early on in the proceedings that it can hardly be described as a twist, although cinematographer Caleb Deschanel does a fine job of blurring the line between what is real and imagined.

China's "trial of the century" in the sweltering, eastern coastal city of Jinan has been hailed by authorities as "open" proceedings, but the atmosphere is hardly welcoming.

Judge Zubov, who had been widely condemned after he attempted to close the proceedings to the press, was hardly an authoritarian figure: one of the journalists dubbed him "Winnie the Pooh".

It contains many very important results which previously could be found only in widely scattered and hardly available conference proceedings and journals.

Now ordinary activists are hardly involved in conference proceedings at all.

Justice can hardly be served when court proceedings take over seven years on average to reach a conclusion.

Thereafter proceedings were so processional that the camera was hardly able to show the two boats at the same time.