Sentence examples for blocking the prosecution from inspiring English sources

The release of the suspects illuminated the obstacles blocking the prosecution of assailants captured on the largely unregulated high seas, where jurisdiction is unclear.

How should we interpret the two parallel policies, the one by Macri blocking the prosecution of civilian and economic accomplices of state terrorism, and the one by Obama to declassify military and intelligence files in favor of historical truth?

President Vaclav Havel stepped in on Wednesday, and blocked the prosecution.

The parliament continues to block the prosecution for corruption charges of high-profile politicians.

Kenya's government has lost its bid to block the prosecution of senior politicians before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

J. Edgar Hoover, then the director of the FBI, blocked the prosecution and overruled the agents in Birmingham.

As long as the Romanian parliament continues to block the prosecution for corruption charges of high-profile politicians and Romanians rely on bribes to solve their daily problems, the country's integration into the EU will not be completed.

But Scotland was able to block the prosecution until Wardle's departure, because cases under the 1906 act require her formal consent - a power the government itself is currently proposing to remove.

In the first federal appeals court opinion dealing with "sexting" — the transmission of sexually explicit photographs by cellphone — a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday that parents could block the prosecution of their children on child pornography charges for appearing in photographs found on some classmates' cellphones.

The site went on to finger two leading politicians, claiming that one had blocked the prosecution of a corrupt banker and was now receiving healthy backhanders; and that the second had diverted $1bn from a state company into the bank account of his sister, who was now running 20 different businesses.

Thorvald and Starri intended to block the prosecution "by force of arms and numbers", but when they realised they were outnumbered, they withdrew and Bolli successfully had Thorolf outlawed.