Sentence examples for proceedings instead of from inspiring English sources

He has pushed banks and debt tribunals to remove influential business leaders during bankruptcy proceedings, instead of quickly writing off their debts.

He called on Congress to pass a law allowing the S.E.C. to bar officers and directors from companies through administrative proceedings instead of court proceedings.

Thus, creditors influence divestiture decisions and obtain the majority of asset sale proceedings instead of reinvesting them into the firm.

Force DCA to spend funds on legal proceedings instead of Internet safety research.

What bothered her most about the whole ordeal, she said, was that Komen forced her to spend money and time on legal fees and proceedings instead of raising funds for cancer.

Every choice is made with a swipe, left or right, yes or no, kill or be killed—I've never used Tinder, but I'm told it's essentially that, but with high-fantasy role-playing stirred into proceedings instead of easy one-night stands (although, Reigns lets you have a few of those, too).

A federal judge on Thursday ruled that sitting judges of Delaware's Chancery Court cannot hold secret proceedings in business disputes by calling the proceedings arbitrations instead of trials.

(One of my favorite visual puns has a version of the Midwestern couple from Grant Wood's "American Gothic" stiffly watching the proceedings from the sidelines. Instead of a pitchfork, he holds a flaming torch. It's 50's conservatism lurching straight into 60's paganism).

There is some recapitulation of this here, including a memorable account of one of his schoolboy truancies in London, when, instead of attending the proceedings of the Sherlock Holmes Society, he spent a few days propping up the bar at the Ritz, dressed in his grandfather's clothes, smoking Balkan Sobranies.

Instead of starting the proceedings with the boring tradition of "All rise for the honorable... .. how about a red carpet pre-show spectacular?

Ms. Messing took her parents instead of her husband to the proceedings, and that seemed to squelch the interrogating.