Sentence examples for proceedings rather than from inspiring English sources

He pays attention to rote proceedings rather than tapping at his BlackBerry or chatting with the guy next to him.

The divorce proceedings, rather than being acrimonious, involved the two reading statements of devotion to each other.

Judge Boyle, gentlemanly and well liked, often seemed to be watching the proceedings rather than running them.

Those cases may be handled with disciplinary proceedings rather than criminal charges, said the Suffolk police commissioner, John C. Gallagher.

Now the standoff between the Muslim Brothers and the military is set to be resolved in various court proceedings, rather than through a political consensus.

The main sticking point was Cambodia's insistence that its own corrupt and ill-trained courts would have the final say in the proceedings, rather than the United Nations.

In fact, the proceedings were civil rather than criminal; it has been found liable.

He goes through the archival records, transcripts, published documents and proceedings, arguing that rather than delivering justice, the Nuremberg trials and the many lesser trials that followed them did little more than channel feelings of revenge into an ordered and regulated form.

He believes the programs should be tailored to the "specific needs of the community," he said at a press conference following the drug court proceedings in Charleston, rather than imposed by officials in Washington.

Immigration proceedings are civil matters rather than criminal ones, so the protections generally afforded to criminal defendants don't apply to individuals with cases before immigration judges.

It goes on: "It was shocking that the judge led the court in a period of silence to the dead man - as if the proceedings were a memorial rather than an inquest.