Sentence examples for protracted proceedings from inspiring English sources

If granted, an annulment would probably delay already protracted proceedings in Ecuador.

The protracted proceedings became the longest-running lawsuit in German history.

Perversely, he says, this may prompt bent mayors to blackmail businesses bidding in municipal tenders to pay backhanders or risk being dragged into protracted proceedings.

The decision by Judge Phineas Mojapelo sets the stage for protracted proceedings in South Africa's largest class action suit, which analysts have said could cost the gold industry hundreds of millions of dollars.

We may not agree with the Court of Appeals on breakup or tying, but it has set a standard that would mean protracted proceedings and delayed relief with a highly uncertain result".

A3 Milosevic Judge Resigns Richard May, the British judge who has led the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic for the past two years, has resigned due to health problems, a move likely to bring new complications to the protracted proceedings against the former Yugoslav president.

After protracted legal proceedings, the Michigan Supreme Court agreed.

The practice, called passing the trash, avoids the difficulties of criminal prosecution or protracted disciplinary proceedings.

This week, an American diplomat offered what he called a "modest proposal" that he hoped would speed along the United Nations' notoriously protracted budgetary proceedings.

On Tuesday, the paper sent its parliamentary reporter, Farirai Machivenyika, to cover a session in which lawmakers were expected to begin protracted impeachment proceedings.

Any suit that might require extensive discovery, the testimony of high-priced experts or protracted court proceedings can't get off the ground.