Sentence examples for controversial trial from inspiring English sources

But he has gener ally been patient and even tempered, at pains to avoid unnecessary controversy in an inherently controversial trial.

Fresh from his controversial trial, Jackson had trouble securing investors.

After a controversial trial for terrorism he was hanged.

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But the Obama Administration's political preparations for a controversial trial were less thorough than those made by previous Administrations.

At times, Chief Nielsen sounds as if the city is preparing for the Olympics rather than a controversial trial.

He dwells on two controversial trials, one concerning a murder committed in 1972, the other concerning a bombing by far-right fanatics in 1969.

The finding opens the way for other states to adopt the laws and allows a number of controversial trials in Queensland to proceed, including that of librarian Sally Kuether, who faces a possible six-month jail term under anti-association laws.

One of the most controversial trials in Pakistani history has ended with the former military dictator Pervez Musharraf declared a fugitive and his property ordered confiscated after he failed to show in court over the assassination 10 years ago of Benazir Bhutto.

In the first half of the 1980s a succession of high profile and deeply controversial trials took place in Northern Ireland on the evidence of 'supergrasses' from loyalist and republican paramilitary organisations prepared to betray large numbers of their former alleged confederates in return for immunity from prosecution or lenient sentences and new identities outside Northern Ireland.

A judge has found the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny guilty of embezzlement in one of the most controversial trials of recent years.