Sentences with 'proceedings'
Example sentences and phrases with the word proceedings and other words derived from it.
• « Mary Jo advises the grandmother to start legal proceedings to obtain custody of her granddaughter. »
• « Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in secret; historians only know the proceedings because James Madison took careful notes of what happened. »
• « Accustomed to representative democracy, jury trials and the right of the accused to appear before a judge, Anglo-American settlers in Texas also disliked the Mexican legal system, which provided for an initial hearing by a alcalde, an administrator who often combined the roles of mayor, judge and law enforcement officer. The alcalde would send a written record of the proceedings to a judge in Saltillo, the state capital, who would decide the outcome. »