Sentence examples for start of deliberations from inspiring English sources

She had voted to acquit him at the start of deliberations.

I look forward to the start of deliberations in the House of Lords today.

It took six years from the start of deliberations until the memorial was fully built and open to the public.

This follows a high court decision which upheld the objections of a secularist councillor to the Christian prayers that were said at the start of deliberations in the town of Bideford.

Arthur Andersen had the support of half the jury at the start of deliberations and steadily lost that support over the next 10 days, four jurors said after the verdict was announced today.

Six months after jury selection began, six weeks after the prosecution rested its case and more than a week after the start of deliberations, the jurors finally hit a wall.

After testimony ended, the judge scheduled closing arguments for Thursday and the start of jury deliberations for Friday afternoon.

Ms. Sellier said that, at the start of their deliberations on Monday, jurors polled themselves to see whether they favored conviction on first or second-degree murder; it was, she said, "split down the middle".

As for the more serious counts against Mr. Blagojevich, the jurors, who had seemed during the trial to be a particularly attentive, studious bunch, had trouble right from the start of their deliberations in reaching much agreement, said one juror, Erik Sarnello.

At the start of jury deliberations in the Jayson Williams trial last month, the presiding judge, in a relatively rare move in New Jersey, gave the jury a written copy of his oral instructions on the law underlying the eight charges against Mr. Williams.

At the start of its eighth day of deliberations, the 14-member jury asked the presiding judge, Frank M. Donato, if it could return a partial verdict on issues it had resolved.