Sentence examples for be prosecuted for using from inspiring English sources

The proper use of testimony about drugs, Judge Cedarbaum said, could be to try to show that "the witness has an interest in currying favor with the government," because in theory he could be prosecuted for using illegal drugs.

After Major Mori made seven trips to Australia on behalf of the detainee David Hicks, an Australian Qaeda trainee, the chief military prosecutor at the time suggested that the major could be prosecuted for using "contemptuous words" against American leaders.

That appeared to put him at odds with President Obama, who the same day sought to reassure C.I.A. operatives that they would not be prosecuted for using brutal interrogation methods if they had acted on official legal advice.

The Prime Minister insisted Spurs supporters should not be prosecuted for using the word as they are not "motivated by hate" when referring to themselves as the "Yid army" and "Yiddos".

In North Carolina, my son can be prosecuted for using the bathroom with which he identifies.

It is the first time a person has been prosecuted for using drones.

Shooting the robbers was in some ways the simplest part, requiring only the reflexes of a survivor, and a gun — though more than a few store owners have been prosecuted for using unlicensed firearms.

Over an 18-month period, at least eight women have been prosecuted for using drugs while pregnant in this rural jurisdiction of barely 37,000, a tally without any recent parallel that women's advocates have been able to find.

At time of his death, Mr. Swartz was being prosecuted for using M.I.T.'s computers to gain access to millions of scholarly articles from Jstor, a subscription-only service for distributing literary journals.

He said there had been about 20 cases in 10 years of people being prosecuted for using violence to defend their homes or after they had intervened to prevent rowdiness or crimes.

In "American Hollow," for example, she examined a large extended family living in rural poverty in Appalachia; in "Women of Substance," the topic was pregnant women being prosecuted for using drugs; "Different Moms" explored mentally retarded parents rearing children of average or above-average intelligence.