proceed against someone

Examples of proceeding

proceeding

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Before proceeding, we need to be more precise about the meaning of "outcome" in such models.
In effect, though, these are no more than three different periodicities: different aspects of history are proceeding at different speeds.
Bioethics really started as an inquiry into the largely uncontrolled practices, habits, and proceedings of the medical structure and profession.
Before proceeding, we will recall some definitions from lattice theory.
The consistent typing makes these books more readable than many camera-ready conference proceedings.
Within this context, legal proceedings in military courts and arrests of labor leaders, workers, and other pro-democracy activists persisted unabated.
To these we add two political variables that could well influence their reaction to the proposal to televise parliamentary proceedings in particular.
They got their share of the proceedings in the process but in effect actively upheld an unequal political and economic system.
Nor were these changes in penal practice proceeding within an intellectual vacuum.
Before proceeding to the proof of this proposition, let us look at some trace computation examples.
Before proceeding to the workings of the machine underlying the grammar, we will present an example for a much simpler grammar.
Before proceeding any further, therefore, let me "remind" you of those events.
Two further points should be stressed before proceeding to the next section.
Children were required to achieve 100% accuracy on the practice trials before proceeding to the experimental trials for each task.
It begins with photography in portraiture, proceeding to documentary and then aesthetic treatments.
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