The phrase "a means of prosecuting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing methods or ways to carry out legal action or pursue a case against someone.
Example: "The new evidence provided a means of prosecuting the suspect more effectively."
Alternatives: "a method of pursuing" or "a way to initiate legal action".
Law No. 205, commonly called the Mancino Law, was passed in 1993 as a means of prosecuting racist violence and hate speech.
It seems to me that Barton's complaint could be stated more accurately, "if you attempt to implement a pro-death penalty interpretation of Christianity in court as a means of prosecuting a case, then you are in trouble".
As for the excuse for keeping the Crime Against Nature law on the books as a means of prosecuting child sex predators and the Cuccinelli campaign's re-framing it as a child protection law on a website launched to make this as an ongoing issue?
Segregated education is both a derivative of apartheid and a means of perpetuating it, although the government has no intention now of prosecuting interracial schools.
Bratton's acceptance speech was terse although, for what it's worth, he does give great speeches and he spent a good bit of it discussing the by-now-old-hat story of how he cleaned up New York using his now-notorious "broken windows" style of policing, in which lower-level offenses are heavily prosecuted as a means of deterring more serious crimes.
As a lifelong prosecutor, I understand how important it is to aggressively prosecute criminal behavior as a means of keeping our communities safe.
He also made something of a specialty of prosecuting Medicaid and workers' compensation fraud.
It has led to a new policy of prosecuting all people who cross the border illegally, including asylum seekers, which means more broken-up families.
Further, the memorandum said other bureau officials believed that the harsh interrogation techniques would have meant that any chances of prosecuting the individual were destroyed because the evidence would have to be thrown out in court because it was coerced.
Whether that means prosecuting individuals or bringing a charge of corporate manslaughter is for others to decide.
Finally, the third approach was to examine the impact based on a set of prosecuted insider trading cases.
