11.   Only if the two parties can not agree on a settlement, the case progresses to a full hearing.

12.   Rodriguez has been under trial in absentia, however, and his case may have progressed too far for him to receive some of the plea bargain benefits.

13.   That suit, pending in a North Carolina district court, also seeks relief from the rules while the case is progressing.

14.   While the case progressed, she has lived in community-based housing and attended training programs on weekdays.

15.   While the case progressed through the higher courts, the original District Court ruled on a second question by finding that the state had negotiated in good faith.

16.   As several earlier corruption cases progressed in courts, the specter of the country seeing a president jailed for the first time for corruption appeared to be intensifying.

17.   In the past, political corruption cases rarely progressed far.