legal proceedings

基本解釋

And its sluggish legal proceedings can take years to reach the point of indictment.
而其緩慢的法律訴訟需要多年才能完成起訴書。
Even if the south has no chance of winning the oil back, it may drag out legal proceedings to satisfy its hotheads at home.
即使南部已經(jīng)沒(méi)有機(jī)會(huì)再贏回油田，它也可以通過(guò)法律程序的拖延來(lái)?yè)嵛窟^(guò)激的人。
It turned out to be false and both of the thespians vehemently denied the gossip, initiating legal proceedings against the rumormongers.
最終被證明傳言是假的。兩位當(dāng)事人都強(qiáng)烈地否認(rèn)這些傳言，并對(duì)散布謠言者進(jìn)行法律訴訟。

"But,the point of the international community is that those are not to be dealt with at the end of the barrel of a gun, but,instead,through legal proceedings."

Goodman did this in the midst of criminal and civil legal proceedings pending against him.
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Bringing legal proceedings to deport an estimated 12 million undocumenteds would be unrealistically expensive.
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