Thursday's meeting was the sole public hearing on the revised study, though State Department officials said there could be an opportunity for another hearing at some point.
In a move I have never seen in almost two decades of trial work, the judge postponed her vacation, so that she could personally greet Lindsay Lohan in court for the sole purpose of hearing the troubled actress's excuse for missing a probation hearing date last Thursday.
At a Defense Department news briefing today, Gen. Peter Pace of the Marines, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stressed that the rescue of the B-1B crew was the Pentagon's sole thought upon hearing of the crash.
The phone lines and wireless connections will be jammed today with filial good wishes, calls placed for the sole purpose of hearing the most familiar voice in the world on the other end of the line.
On Monday, the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee held an eight-hour hearing, the sole purpose of which was to decry "excessive speculation".
The hearing's sole witness was North's former boss, Dennis McLerran, the E.P.A. regional director who initiated the Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment.
And in the rarest of turns, officials said, the authority held a hearing whose sole focus was not a decrease, but an increase in service: more frequent off-peak railroad service at the Spuyten Duyvil, Riverdale and Irvington stations along Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line.
After saying initially that he had not known that the steroids were banned during training in Britain, Zarooni changed his account before the hearing, taking sole responsibility for the doping, describing it as a "catastrophic error" and apologizing abjectly to the sheik and the British racing community.
Gates was the sole witness at the hearing, held by a committee created in the wake of Sputnik to find ways to reassert U.S. leadership in science.
Think Progress first reported that the Democrats' sole witness at the hearing, Christy Zink, told an all-male panel of congressmen the painful story of her decision to end her pregnancy at 21 weeks, because tests showed that the fetus' brain was not functioning.
