In an investigation, if the suspect has the power to withhold even one document, the whole proceeding is rendered meaningless.
"Frankly, I thought the whole proceeding was a delaying tactic by the city," said Michael H. Sussman, an N.A.A.C.P. lawyer.
In the same song, she expresses her ambivalence about the whole proceeding: "Look at these people, aren't they eerie?
"Even in a country where the tabloids are king and journalists are voyeurs, this whole proceeding is shocking," Mr. Roche wrote.
Actually having tea, the social ritual that gave a name to the whole proceeding, created new opportunities for disgrace.
This group tended to start with the small features and proceed to a fuller caress of the entire head, a sense of the whole proceeding from its parts.
Although the former commander is no linger living and thus does not appear in the story or in this production, his figure hovers over the whole proceeding.
Breyer's question may well not have revealed his mindset (justices often surprise that way), but if it did, it missed the point of the whole proceeding.
This makes a certain amount of sense, because a death sentence must be unanimous; if a single juror objects from the outset, the whole proceeding might be a waste of time.
