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were expedited
verb
To accelerate the progress of.
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A Commerce Department spokesman said requests without objections, such as Mandel's, were expedited in the review process.
Khan Shatyr was built on a less exigent schedule, but it was still helped along: customs officials opened an office at the construction site in order to save time at the border; visas were expedited.
The Franco-American discussions at a conference on November 13 were expedited by a threat from Clark that he would arrest the French leadership and implement martial law if a settlement could not be reached.
If Hirohito, in whose name all military deeds were expedited, was not himself held accountable for the war, then how could anyone expect the people at large to think seriously about their own responsibilities?
Public hearings on proposed pipelines were expedited from the fall to the spring, leaving groups little time to organize and mount challenges to inadequate environmental analysis of the impacts, said Gillian McEachern of Environmental Defense, a Canadian environment group.
Some New York media organizations waited several days last week for results of laboratory tests for anthrax that were being conducted by the State Health Department, while similar tests on the Manhattan offices of Gov. George E. Pataki were expedited and produced results within 24 hours.
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Can this be expedited?
The process should be expedited.
That work, he added, "will be expedited".
The team made sure it was expedited.
Their asylum cases should be expedited.
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