Sentence examples for proceedings the first from inspiring English sources

The decision to delay the proceedings — the first witnesses were due May 29 — is certain to suit the defense.

But Mr. Trump, not one to encourage comity with the White House press corps, skipped last year's proceedings, the first president to do so since Ronald Reagan in 1981.

In June 1788, after the Constitution had been ratified by nine states (as required by Article VII, Congresssetet March 4 , 1789 as the date for the new government to commence proceedings (the first elections under the Constitution were held late in 1788).

In 2001, after a Belgian court sentenced four Rwandans, two of them Roman Catholic nuns, to long prison terms for their roles in the genocide, Dr. Des Forges said she had been deeply impressed by the proceedings — the first in which a jury of ordinary citizens was asked to sit in judgment of war crimes in another nation.

While more than 40 defendants were present, however, neither Michaloliakos nor the majority of the party's MPs were, in what has been interpreted as an effort to undermine the significance of the proceedings – the first time an entire party and its leadership have faced trial in Greece.

When she opened her proceedings, the first thing she said was: 'No outbursts in my court room,' or something to that effect.

Named Entity Recognition with Character-Level Models Proceedings the Seventh Conference on Natural Language Learning,2003, pp. 180-183.

This was only the second time the court had granted such audio access to its proceedings -- the first time was the momentous skirmish over the Florida balloting that decided the 2000 presidential election -- and the additional sunlight as the justices confront one of the term's weightiest issues was welcome.

A dividing wall dominates proceedings for the first hour.

Proceedings of the First USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI).

This volume contains the Proceedings of the First Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Timed Systems (TPTS '2002.