After this point, the catalytic event should proceed without particular obstacles.

If events proceed along these lines all will go well.

During the next days events proceeded to even greater madness.

The event then proceeded, without restrictions and with full police protection.

A lawsuit was filed with the effect that the 2003 event proceeded.

The two events proceed, one after the other, without disturbances or dislocations.

"Then events have proceeded more quickly than I had thought."

Everything would have been fine if events had proceeded normally.

If events proceeded as he suspected, she would be shocked and horrified.

It makes more sense to suppose that events proceeded quickly.