Example sentences for: proceeding

How can you use “proceeding” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Bottom-up progression: the young being inducted into school at an early age and proceeding, level by level, to institutions of ever “higher” learning, stopping off for various reasons at various levels, usually marked by tests and the distribution of certificates providing a social grade.

  • News , the election outcomes will directly determine whether impeachment proceeding are dropped and whether Clinton can set any agenda in his remaining two years in office.

  • In a legal sense, the Jones proceeding is an apple to Starr's orange, claims Charles Krauthammer ( Inside Washington ). Most pundits point out--sometimes ominously, sometimes dismissively--that no one has seen Starr's cards: They may show "Lizzie Borden in drag" (Shields, PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ). Three conservatives proclaim their confidence that Starr holds enough to undo Clinton's presidency (Robert Novak, Capital Gang ; Fred Barnes and John McLaughlin, The McLaughlin Group ). Stuart Taylor wrote as much this week in the National Journal and appears on This Week to reprise the point.

  • Whether in asking these questions Starr himself was pressuring Steele--and whether that constitutes a "vicious attempt to threaten Steele's adoption" (Shapiro) in "genuine Gestapo fashion" (Al Hunt in the Wall Street Journal )--is a question the current criminal proceeding will not answer.

  • But the car companies are proceeding slowly and minimally, lest they turn off legions of younger customers.


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