Sentence examples for actual prosecutions from inspiring English sources

That is, however, little comfort since we can anticipate that actual prosecutions for this type of offence are likely to be rare.

Actual prosecutions for tax crimes fell by half, to about 500, last year from more than 1,000 a decade earlier, according to a report issued yesterday by Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or Trac.

Clever enough, but hopefully this won't lead to actual prosecutions of innocent people.

On the enforcement front, residents were active in lodging complaints, but few actual prosecutions were needed.

Some fear actual prosecution, while others simply don't want to be associated with a practice increasingly condemned as a war crime.

If he had insisted on a comprehensive overhaul of the disastrous common agricultural policy, on the long overdue reduction in salaries and tax-free perks for Eurocrats, and on actual prosecution of corrupt officials.

In essence, the first tribunal is supposed to serve as a continuation of the plan to get as much information as possible out of the detainees, with the actual prosecution of any crimes as a secondary goal.

Given these facts, the Court finds that plaintiffs "have alleged an actual and well-founded fear that the law will be enforced against them," which threatens the danger of "self-censorship; a harm that can be realized even without an actual prosecution".

In fact it sounds like Nik Gowing's gentle probing of Bolton's views about when torture might be justified were far more likely to have helped build a credible case for an actual prosecution than Monbiot's rather silly stunt at Hay.

But one wonders what the chances of any actual prosecution are, given that, in many cases, US individuals and corporations already have the green light to do exactly what much of the world's public is so upset about right now.

In this paper, we examine the validity of these assumptions by studying the use made of applicant-submitted prior art by delving into the actual prosecution process in over a thousand different cases.