Sentence examples for be prosecuted on a from inspiring English sources

Volkswagen could be prosecuted on a corporate manslaughter charge over rigged diesel emission tests, ministers have said, as the Government faced questions from MPs over the number of deaths that could be attributed to the scandal.

The issue at stake here is the accountability of elected officials to their people Mr López is accountable because he failed as an elected official to respect the law.Ricardo Vila FreyerGuanajuato, MexicoSIR – Mexico's two establishment parties are being hypocritical (and causing instability) by allowing Mr López to be prosecuted on a technicality.

The Supreme Court had been asked by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to decide whether too much time had passed between the crime and Mr. Seale's arrest in early 2007 for him to be prosecuted on a federal kidnapping charge.

The German criminal code prohibits insults leveraged against foreign leaders, but says that transgressions can be prosecuted on a case-by-case basis.

Under the current federal law, perpetrators can only be prosecuted on a terrorism-related charge when they've either taken a very specific type of action or if they have claimed allegiance to a foreign terrorist organization that's on a list made up of mostly radical Islamist groups.

Sterling told VICE News he initially suggested that only Pablo Escobar-level kingpins be subject to mandatory minimums, but some senators wanted a law that would be prosecuted on a regular basis, so that they could take credit for cracking down.

They did a scanty investigation of Thomas's background for the sentencing hearing, an effort that was hindered by the fact that the chief mitigation witness, Thomas's aunt, who was the closest thing to an enduring parental figure in his life, had herself been prosecuted on a drug charge by one of the lawyers during his years as an assistant state's attorney.

After 30 years' residence in Athens, he was prosecuted on a charge of impiety for asserting that the Sun is an incandescent stone somewhat larger than the region of the Peloponnese.

Later, Mr. McCready was prosecuted on an assault charge but was acquitted.

In the past adultery could only be prosecuted on complaint from an injured party, and any case was closed immediately if the plaintiff dropped the charge - a common occurrence that often involved a financial settlement.

Sergeant Akbar, who was the first American since the Vietnam era to be prosecuted on charges of murdering a fellow soldier in wartime, was convicted of premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder after he threw grenades into tents and then opened fired on soldiers.