proceeding

IPA: prʌsˈidɪŋ

The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction
An event or happening; something that happens
(always in plural) A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society.
Progress or movement from one thing to another.
A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction
(law) Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit.

Examples of "proceeding" in Sentences

"It is not (_Golf_ is not!) a proceeding (_proceeding, quotha!
"There was no point in proceeding under the current conditions."
Moreover the recent decisions from the Judiciary also reflect their reluctance in proceeding with the case.
On a label proceeding from his mouth is inscribed the following line: "O Christ, be thy wounds my pleasing remedy."
We have but one resource if such a proceeding is distasteful, and that is, not to vote at all, which is certainly unpatriotic.
He wrote, market theory often prevents access to a true understanding of competition by proceeding from the assumption of a 'given' quantity of scarce goods.
"3rd Regt.;" his right hand points to the tomb; and a label proceeding from his mouth represents him saying, "I have obtained a pension of a shilling a day only for putting an end to thy days."
Read this way, the point of the passage is that we can adapt to new situations in ways that go beyond anything we already knew how to do; doing this is what he calls proceeding according to the kinds.
We observed that the gates of the two walls were not built opposite to each other, with the object no doubt of exposing an assaulting party to greater loss in proceeding from the outer to the inner gate.
The third Fairfax proceeding is now in its sixth week, with the defense building its case that Prieto should not be executed because of the trauma he suffered as a child growing up in war-torn El Salvador in the 1970s.