Sentence examples for At prosecution from inspiring English sources

But the fallout from Ms. Crawford's remarks went beyond implications for the Obama administration's efforts at prosecution.

Instead of bringing terrorists to justice, efforts at prosecution met setbacks, cases lingered on, and in 2006 the supreme court invalidated the entire system.

This approach is more likely to ensure attempts at prosecution are successful as it will reduce the risk of having "reluctant witnesses", McDonald says.

The government seems to think that it has evidence to bring military-tribunal proceedings against another thirty-three or so — though its efforts at prosecution have been painfully slow and, at times, risible.

F.B.I. officials, including Pasquale D'Amuro, then the bureau's top counterterrorism officer, believed the physical pressure being used by the C.I.A. was less effective than traditional noncoercive methods, that it would "taint" any future effort at prosecution, and that it "was wrong and helped Al Qaeda in spreading negative views of the United States," the report says.

For Guengueng, this milestone in African justice came at the end of a long journey that had seen several failed attempts at prosecution: first in Senegal, where Habré fled in exile after being deposed in a coup; then in Belgium, which has universal jurisdiction; and then under the Economic Community of West African States, or Ecowas.

Similarly, if there had been damage to property, would many of us have baulked at prosecutions for criminal damage?

As the guilty verdict was announced, Mr. Ramrattan, 39, who had muttered at the prosecution witnesses and smiled at the jury during the trial, sat quietly, staring ahead.

There was a stir at the prosecution table.

Judge Berman said the soldier's name was withheld at the prosecution's request.

Earlier, they turned their back to the court to protest at their prosecution.