Examples of 'were ongoing' in a sentence

Meaning of "were ongoing"

were ongoing: This phrase is used to describe actions or situations that were in progress or continuing at a certain point in the past. It implies that the activities were not yet completed or resolved. For example, 'The negotiations were ongoing when the unexpected news arrived.'

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Those violations were ongoing and continued to worsen.
The investigations into the cases were ongoing.
The studies were ongoing at the time of approval.
Conversations with other central banks were ongoing.
He said discussions were ongoing to choose a presidential candidate.
Negotiations for release of remaining hostages were ongoing.
Investigations were ongoing with respect to the remaining suspects.
Watts noted that the attacks were ongoing.
The investigations were ongoing but no arrests had been made.
Rescue operations by land and air were ongoing.
Construction projects were ongoing at the end of the period.
Efforts to disseminate information regarding those conventions were ongoing.
There were ongoing underground scientific and cultural activities.
But negotiations were ongoing anyway.
Clashes were ongoing in the town during the night.

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Further proceedings against him were ongoing.
Negotiations were ongoing but yield very little results.
Negotiations on the draft resolution were ongoing.
These discussions were ongoing and all seemed in order.
He added that these exchanges were ongoing.
Six pregnancies were ongoing when the study finished.
The contractor stated that biodiversity studies were ongoing.
These were ongoing at the end of the reporting period.
Five steps were fully completed and five were ongoing.
Consultations were ongoing on this matter.
Efforts to address the problems of such persons were ongoing.
The following tasks were ongoing at the end of the period.
But the peace was fragile and negotiations were ongoing.
Negotiations were ongoing during most of the period of this evaluation.
Because of all these investigations that were ongoing.
Most of these programmes were ongoing during the review period.
Consultations with other government departments were ongoing.
Three prosecutions were ongoing at the end of the reporting period.
Negotiations to resolve the situation were ongoing.
Security awareness sessions were ongoing at the time of the audit.
An inquest file had been opened and the procedures were ongoing.
Efforts to combat racial discrimination were ongoing and demanded unceasing vigilance.
Improvements in the integration and consistency of technical assessments were ongoing.
She knew the experiments were ongoing going on.
Several more national pilot surveys in schools were in preparation or were ongoing.
When the wars were ongoing.
Efforts were ongoing to find a donor to fund the project in future years.
Efforts to change that discriminatory aspect of the law were ongoing.
Data for phases that were ongoing last year have been updated.
Wide consultations with the public and legislators were ongoing.
I had a lot of projects that were ongoing at the beginning of the summer.
At the beginning of the reporting period eight fi les were ongoing.
Excavations were ongoing as of the end of the period covered by this report.
Consultations on the matter were ongoing.
Rescue operations were ongoing as at the time of filing this report.

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