The commission usually holds lengthy hearings before choosing between competing proposals.

The court decision came after a lengthy hearing to determine if there was enough evidence to proceed.

He became one of only two men to be executed for war crimes after a lengthy hearing.

He did not testify in a lengthy pre-trial hearing last summer but is expected to take the stand this month.

That agreement does give strong job protection to principals, who cannot be transferred without lengthy hearings.

But the fascination of the lengthy hearings was by no means confined to style.

In 1959, he was given a security clearance after a new, lengthy internal hearing.

The fair officials sought the agreement to avoid a lengthy and costly hearing held in an effort to prove the two animals were one.

The proposals that were approved face uncertain prospects and lengthy hearings.

Under the accord, principals will still have strong job protection and cannot be dismissed without lengthy hearings.