Sentence examples for control of prosecutions from inspiring English sources
In more recent years, the Southern District has competed to win control of prosecutions involving WorldCom, Adelphia Communications and Frank P. Quattrone, the former Credit Suisse banker.
As Mary Jo White, the United States attorney in Manhattan, was pressing her case with the Justice Department this fall to keep control of terrorism prosecutions stemming from the Sept. 11 terror attacks, there was one person whose opinion she wanted: Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.
The Hillsborough talks followed months of brinkmanship over the relinquishing of direct British control of the police, the prosecution service and the courts in the province to local control.
The news conference announcing the agreement to shift to local control of the police, the prosecution service and the courts reflected another element in the political matrix that has kept Northern Ireland on the peace track ever since the watershed Good Friday agreement of 1998 — the role played by the Irish government.
He has control of the office of public prosecutions, which gives advice on and often conducts criminal prosecutions.
Someone who questions basic premises such as that should not be put in a position of having direct control over prosecutions.
Republicans have predicted that Democrats would try to use the confirmation hearings on the choice for the attorney general to showcase their differences with Republicans over issues like gun control and prosecution of hate crimes.
A 1993 judicial "reform" has in practice given control of the courts and the prosecution service to a committee picked by the government.
Disclosure has been a requirement for a trash hauling permit since a series of prosecutions against organized-crime groups that controlled the industry, Mr. Morgenthau said.
Although it is impossible to determine how much of the drug trade Mexicans control, federal prosecutions point to their growing role.
