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The phrase "a sort of prosecution" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a situation that resembles or has characteristics of a prosecution, but may not be a formal or legal prosecution.
Example: "The investigation felt like a sort of prosecution, with the way the evidence was presented and the pressure applied to the witnesses."
Alternatives: "a kind of legal action" or "a type of indictment".
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Acting as our own lawyers in court, we aimed to defend a population that finds little voice in our society at all, and to bring a sort of prosecution against their persecutors.
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A: Sort of.
Fewer than a dozen have any sort of prosecution pending against them.
'Anonymous informations ought not to be received in any sort of prosecution.
Supt Louisa Pepper of Suffolk police said: "Please don't be worried about any sort of prosecution because we genuinely just want the drugs off the streets.
When one is sexually assaulted – assuming the police investigate at all and the prosecutors intend to do any sort of prosecution – they don't just look into the background of the perpetrator or his (or her) actions during the assault.
Award-winning Guardian journalism has helped to establish a powerful case for the biggest corporate fine in history, but it is still far too early to be sure that this will carry the day – or even to bank on there being any sort of prosecution at all.
His charitable foundation's illegal campaign donations, pay-for-play schemes, and payments to settle corporate debts?" The committee's resolution to hold Pagliano in contempt of Congress was referred to the full House, which will have to vote on it before sending it to the Department of Justice for any sort of prosecution.
Harlow mentioned that the charges were serious and that the victim was young, but talked about the prosecution as a sort of injustice against her, too: "The last thing she wanted to do was sit on that stand and testify.
Judge Gannett then set out a sort of counternarrative, elicited by defense lawyers from the prosecution's evidence.
[The report] could not go into who did what to whom because there were all sorts of prosecutions pending".
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