Sentence examples for Before prosecuting from inspiring English sources

Those who have an interest in killing him before prosecuting him are those who had an active role with him".

But before prosecuting women for abortion and passing lengthy jail terms, we should ask whether our laws are coherent and, indeed, whether criminalisation is ever appropriate.

What the Kremlin certainly did know before prosecuting Yukos was just how important the company is to Russia's status as a petro-state.

Last year the government dithered before prosecuting a group of Muslims who had offended Hindus by using a cow's severed head to demonstrate against the building of a temple.

The son of an American mother and a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant father who served in the first world war and sold fruit and scrap in Russell, Kansas (the same town that produced Bob Dole), Mr Specter attended the University of Pennsylvania and Yale Law School before prosecuting municipal corruption as a district attorney in Philadelphia.

And, in September, Bell asked for a six-month delay before prosecuting the claim against the state.

He said he did not "agree with a lot of Hamas ideas," but like many here thought that Hamas, the Islamic party that has ruled here since 2007 after winning elections the year before, prosecuted this round of fighting well, with its rockets reaching Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

This administration, while vowing transparency and accountability, has actually become ever more secretive and punitive: stamping "classified" on everything in sight, pursuing whistle-blowers as never before, and prosecuting journalists for publishing leaked information.

Last week, Mark Warwick, the former police detective in charge of the unit, told the Independent that his team had identified cases where he felt there was "significant evidence to be obtained to put a strong case before the service prosecuting authority to prosecute and charge".

Warwick, the former police detective in charge of Ihat, told the Independent: "There are serious allegations that we are investigating across the whole range of Ihat investigations, which incorporates homicide, where I feel there is significant evidence to be obtained to put a strong case before the service prosecuting authority [SPA, which deals with military cases] to prosecute and charge.

In this case, the aspect of the shaming is a very unusual motive that I have not seen prosecuted before," he said.