Sentence examples for tense proceedings from inspiring English sources

Justice Teresi got off to a good start in presiding over the tense proceedings.

Gibbons takes the reader from museums and neighborhood life to tense proceedings in Juvenile Court, from comically noir-tinged scenes at a store on Clark Street to midnight immigrants at a gas station on Western Avenue, and from a child's piggybank to nature in urban spaces.

But it's welcome levity to the otherwise tense proceedings.

And, the wall is always there -- inescapable for the characters and the audience -- looming overhead and casting a shadow on the tense proceedings.

Lovely Grace keeps her wedding dress on throughout the tense proceedings as Cooper faces the villains down, with no help from his fellow citizens.

One example is the "go to the balcony" exercise proposed by William Ury in his negotiation book Getting Past No. Ury advises negotiators to discipline themselves, regardless of how tense and difficult the proceedings, to periodically take a step back and "go to the balcony" in order to get perspective on what is happening and why, and adjust strategies accordingly.

On Friday, after a tense hearing, the judges ordered the proceedings stopped.

But that didn't prevent Bauers from experiencing some tense moments as the 49th annual draft proceedings, which began June 6, progressed.

Proceedings in the council have been tense since the killing in July of Abdel Fatah Younis, the then commander of the anti-Qaddafi forces.

Matt and Lauren (David Beck and Adriana Degirolami) live in a college town and have just returned to campus after a weekend away at some legal proceedings that have left them exhausted and tense.

"A Separation," which is about divorce proceedings and the care of an elderly parent, is twice as tense as "Everybody Knows," which features a full-blown crime.