Right now, he said, he just hopes for a thorough hearing.

He said he would conduct "thorough, full and expeditious hearings" and did not intend to delay the process.

Texaco's attacks on the impartiality of the trial court judge received an even more thorough hearing.

My battle now is to make sure that those who follow me will get a fair and thorough hearing.

Instead, the movie calls attention to a set of killings that were never given as fair and thorough a hearing as they deserved.

The captain just wanted to give everyone's ideas a thorough hearing.

Fair and thorough hearings are not a partisan excess but a constitutional responsibility.

A 700-word column is painfully inadequate to give Wilkins a thorough hearing.

Second, his dissent was bound to get a thorough, sympathetic hearing because having a board member publicly object to a management-backed deal is so unusual.

"This bill will go through a thorough hearing and it will be modified," Senator Bark said.