The hearings were initially completed, with Thomas's good character being presented as a primary qualification for the high court because he had only been a judge for slightly more than one year.

The hearings were then reopened, and Hill was called to publicly testify.

The hearings were concluded in November 2004, and the report was published 15 June 2010.

During the McCarthy Era in 1947, when US Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin claimed that the federal government and other institutions were riddled with Communists, the US House began hearings about purported communist influence in Hollywood.

On 22 May 2007, hearings were held in the UK Parliament concerning citizen-initiated petitions for special regulation of franchising by the government of the UK due to losses incurred by citizens who had invested in franchises.

In 1983, Brundtland was invited by then United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar to establish and chair the World Commission on Environment and Development ( WCED ), widely referred to as the Brundtland Commission, developing the broad political concept of sustainable development in the course of extensive public hearings that were distinguished by their inclusiveness and published its report Our Common Future in April 1987.

The Court's business being conducted in English and French as official languages, and hearings were public, unless otherwise specified.

For public hearings he was assisted by interpreters, but for private meetings only he, the Registrar and the Deputy-Registrar were admitted.

Witnesses who were identified as victims of gross human rights violations were invited to give statements about their experiences, and some were selected for public hearings.

Public hearings of the Human Rights Violations Committee and the Amnesty Committee were held at many venues around South Africa, including Cape Town ( at the University of the Western Cape ), Johannesburg ( at the Central Methodist Mission ), and Randburg ( at the Rhema Bible Church ).

Additional high-profile hearings, such as Winnie Mandela's testimony, were also televised live.

The rest of the hearings were presented on television each Sunday from April 1996 to June 1998 in hour-long episodes of the " Truth Commission Special Report " by progressive Afrikaner journalist Max du Preez, former editor of the Vrye Weekblad.

Gretzky did not attend the Coyotes ' training camp, leaving associate head coach Ulf Samuelsson in charge, due to an uncertain contractual status with the club, whose bankruptcy hearings were continuing.

The hearings were later adjourned amid claims that witnesses were being intimidated on Mandela's orders.

The records of loyalty review hearings and investigations were supposed to be confidential, but Hoover routinely gave evidence from them to congressional committees such as HUAC.

The hearings held by the Senate Committee, in which Dean and other former administration officials testified, were broadcast from May 17 to August 7, 1973.

Technically, Bonanno kept the vow of omertà and answered no questions in government hearings, but many then-current New York Mafia leaders were outraged at what he had said in his book and considered him to have already broken the vow.

In the spring of 1961, there were a series of hearings in Congress, where Sandia presented the prototype of a special electro-mechanical lock, which was then known still as a " Proscribed Action Link.

During the Wen Ho Lee scandal, involving stolen nuclear secrets from Los Alamos National Laboratory, hearings were called in Congress regarding the Department of Energy's handling of the matter.

The committee's unravellings, which showed Mafia infiltration of the unions, made Mulroney well known in Quebec, as the hearings were extensively covered in the media.

Il ritorno has been described as an " ugly duckling ", but also as the most tender and moving of Monteverdi's surviving operas, and as one which, though it might disappoint initially, will on subsequent hearings reveal a vocal style of extraordinary eloquence.

Although his role was initially greatly reduced after the move west, Tom's promotion marks his renewed influence in the family and he goes on to be instrumental in both securing the loyalty of Senator Pat Geary and defending Michael during the Senate hearings on the Mafia.

Some require court hearings and others require that treating psychiatrists comply with a set of requirements before compulsory treatment is instituted.

Since the transfer of station licenses was again involved, the FCC set hearings, which proved to be contentious.

Three years later, after hearings and appeals and more hearings, the U. S. Court of Appeals set a major precedent when it sent the case back to the FPC to start the process over again.

In the early years, the Lord Chancellor made most of the decisions himself ; he summoned the parties, set a date for hearings, addressed questions from the parties to the case and announced the verdict.

Congress voted for $ 200, 000 of immediate assistance and set hearings to determine what larger sum might be needed when the full nature of the disaster could be learned.

Before the Boundary Commission began formal hearings, governments were set up for the East and the West Punjab regions.

Former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, the only member of the 9 / 11 Commission to read the President's Daily Brief, revealed in the hearings that the documents " would set your hair on fire " and that the intelligence warnings of al-Qaida attacks " plateaued at a spike level for months " before 9 / 11.

An example of the latter is Texas, where rates are set after comprehensive hearings each year.

A third set of hearings in July 1984 selected the present route, allowing construction to commence.

After a lengthy set of hearings ( one in camera, another open to the public ), and attracting considerable attention as a " freedom of the press " case, the government dropped its charges after it claimed the case became moot when another bomb speculator ( Chuck Hansen ) published his own views on the " secret " ( many commentators speculated that they were afraid the Atomic Energy Act would become overturned under such scrutiny ).

The Fulbright Hearings refers to any of the set of U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Vietnam conducted between 1966 and 1971.

Officers ( Inca, Casique and Enforcer ) are supported by a " Crown Council " of seven members which set rules and regulations and holds disciplinary hearings.

Through aggressive agitation in public hearings, meetings and flyering, the group pushed the Fare Strike tactic set for December 15 of 2004.

Although high-profile rulemakings may include public hearings, most rulemakings are simply noticed in the Federal Register with a call for written comments by a set deadline.

Duke was also used so that Thompson could talk about himself-after a diving accident Thompson had to spend some time in a decompression chamber, and wrote a letter signed ' Raoul Duke ' in which the pseudonym described the insanity of Thompson's condition in the chamber-holding up scrawled notes to the single glass window and ordering a television set to watch coverage of the Watergate hearings.

Winterbottom traveled to Perugia, Italy in 2010 and attended court hearings for research on the project, at one time set to star Colin Firth.

After the Bavarian Prime Minister, Hanns Siedel, set aside a parcel of land of about 8 hectares on the border of the English Garden for use, a series of hearings and meetings took place between the state of Bavaria and Studentenwerk München.

A five-member board of commissioners meets monthly to set OLCC policy and make decisions in areas such as liquor licenses, rules, contested case hearings and appointments of liquor store agents.

In France, Italy, and the Netherlands, the courts either dismissed the Church of Scientology's motions, or set injunction hearings far beyond the date of actual publication.