Sentence examples for commitments to prosecute from inspiring English sources

Under the previous president, Abdoulaye Wade, Senegal dragged its heels on commitments to prosecute Habré, and failed to act upon requests for his extradition to face charges in Belgium.

Mr. Trumka asserted that the Colombian government had fallen short on its commitment to prosecute and reduce impunity for those who have murdered union supporters.

The defendants had been summoned after the international prosecutor decided to act, arguing that Kenya had ignored its commitment to prosecute the organizers of the post-election violence in its own national courts.

But the memo came with caveats, stressing the Justice Department's commitment to prosecute commercial marijuana growers and traffickers who feed the illegal market but hide behind "claims of compliance with state or local law".

The Chemmani cases in particular have come to be seen as a test of Mrs. Kumaratunga's commitment to prosecute the worst spate of human rights abuses during her tenure.

"This commitment to prosecute alleged torturers even if the torture happened in an entirely different country and continent is sometimes called the principle of providing no safe haven for torturers".

They were brought less than five weeks after WorldCom announced its discovery of the accounting problems, and was quickly held up by the Bush administration as proof of its commitment to prosecute corporate miscreants.

The British, who started out with a strong commitment to prosecute Turkish war criminals, lost much of their resolve and ended up trading many of the Ottoman killers in their custody for British POWs.

"A preliminary investigation absent a commitment to prosecute violations of the law is simply anemic.

The security forces have suggested that they committed suicide or died of natural causes, but many Bangladeshis suspect that they were tortured and killed.In May the government reiterated its commitment to prosecuting those accused of committing atrocities during the 1971 war of secession from West Pakistan (now Pakistan).

Vaz said he welcomed May's commitment to prosecuting "those officers involved in Hillsborough who broke the law".