Sentence examples for because they were prosecuted from inspiring English sources
By their own admission, they became interested because they were prosecuted in Corpus Christi.
They worked in the secrecy of the Grand Jury that they control with no judicial supervision in large part because they were prosecuting the very police force that they work with every day.
Such charges are extremely serious here because they are prosecuted under China's state secrets law, which calls for heavy sentences and deprives defendants of virtually all legal rights.
"They were prosecuted because they were successfully resisting the unionization drive," he said.
They are prosecuted because getting rid of the bad apples is in the interests of the firms involved and the securities industry in general.
The younger ones are often entrusted to carry the guns and even to use them, because if they get caught they are prosecuted as juveniles, which means their records are sealed and they get shorter sentences.
"They're prosecuting Warren Jeffs for rape because he is the leader of a church and a religion that the state doesn't approve of," Mr. Bugden said.
In a communication issued in January 2002, MI5 and MI6 explicitly warned their agents in the field against engaging in torture themselves, not least because they could be prosecuted for doing so, given the prohibition of torture contained in the UK's Human Rights Act, stemming from the European Convention of Human Rights.
They were a well-meaning attempt to modernise care, said Mr Le Sueur, but all are now closed, two of them because the carers were prosecuted.
And this prosecution proves that, because Lay and Skilling were prosecuted under pre-Sarbanes-Oxley laws.
How many other rape victims were prosecuted because of incomplete police investigations?
