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When she opened the public inquiry, which isn't a criminal proceeding, Lady Justice Thirlwall said Cheshire Police were investigating whether there may be a case of corporate manslaughter against the hospital trust.

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had been saying for weeks that officials were planning to meet with Trump’s team in a bid to dissuade him from proceeding with tariffs.

“They didn’t feel like other staff members would be comfortable proceeding with the abortion,” she said.

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Construction of Glen Sannox's sister ship, Glen Rosa, is proceeding more smoothly, and it is due to be delivered in September next year.

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Even if Trump sought to stop the case from proceeding, which Prof Allensworth said is unlikely, the states listed as plaintiffs could proceed on their own.

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What are other ways to say proceeding?

The noun proceeding, commonly proceedings (plural), applies to what goes on or takes place on a given occasion or to the records of the occasion: proceedings of the Royal Academy of Sciences. A process is a series of progressive and interdependent steps by which an end is attained: a chemical process. Procedure usually implies a formal or set order of doing a thing, a method of conducting affairs: parliamentary procedure. 

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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