Sentence examples for proceedings were halted from inspiring English sources

It was only suspended because the priest was terminally ill; indeed, pretrial proceedings were halted just before he died.

But Mr. McAllister cannot help comparing his case with those of the ones whose deportation proceedings were halted.

Proceedings were halted last Friday and suspended this week while doctors examined Mr. Milosevic, who is defending himself, after he complained of exhaustion.

The Tory benches roared their approval and proceedings were halted for 30 seconds while Dave lapped up the applause; it isn't often he scores an outright winner and he was determined to milk the moment.

All five of the men have said they want to represent themselves, but in the case of these two men, Ramzi bin al-Shibh and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, the military judge had not yet determined their competency when the proceedings were halted.

That proved literally the case at the Albert Hall, where proceedings were halted at one point by an unexplained, five-minute hitch.

The time limit had been shortened by Mr Berlusconi's previous government, one of several measures pushed through that make it exceptionally hard to secure a conclusive conviction for any white-collar crime in Italy.The shortened time limit makes it highly unlikely that the prime minister's own trial will be completed before proceedings are halted.

But it's not without its surprises: quite aside from Suggs's increasingly wayward between-song pronouncements, there's both a beautiful cover of David Bowie's Kooks and a baffling interlude where proceedings are halted in order for guitarist Chris Foreman to sing a karaoke version of AC/DC's Highway to Hell.

The legal proceedings in Hungary were halted last month on the grounds of double jeopardy.

Deportation proceedings against a gay Colombian man were halted by a New York immigration judge just hours after the supreme court decision.

Still others were halted early.