Sentence examples for convictions achieved from inspiring English sources

A March 2013 Government Accountability Office study found that the Justice Department office in charge of managing the suspicious-activity initiative does not track "their role in deterring terrorist activities or the number of arrests or convictions achieved".

Forward-thinking prosecutors, judges and participants in the criminal justice system, like those operating drug courts in Seattle, where I practiced law for many years, understand that success must be measured not simply by the number of convictions achieved by a prosecutor's office, but also by a prosecutor's ability to effect long-term crime reduction.

The tally now reads 69 people charged since October 2009, 63 convictions achieved, five cases pending and one remaining defendant on the run.It has been a stunning streak that largely, though not entirely, rests on the 2009 arrest of Raj Rajaratnam, the head of the once-prominent Galleon Group, who is currently serving a 11-year sentence.

But the Enron conviction, achieved with scarce direct evidence of fraud, might indicate that white-collar crime is becoming more like the rats in the warehouse.

Legal proceedings against former communist politicians (few of which ended with convictions) hardly achieved the desired function of clearing up and catharsis.

To date no convictions have been achieved for trafficking for labour exploitation, the Tories said.

While neither man knew how often Section 174 discharge applications succeeded, they pointed out how the NPA achieved convictions in 88% of higher court cases.

A special unit of the prosecutor's office is investigating 1,300 killings of trade unionists, stretching back to 1986, but has achieved convictions in only 14% of these cases.Yet these numbers represent a lower death toll and higher clean-up rate than those for Colombians who are not union members.

"In any field the people that excel are those with the discipline to train hard and the conviction to achieve their goals," she said.

"It's not that I'm being a conformist, I'd like to be world champion, but you have to have the conviction of achieving an important goal and then advancing.

Mr. Basciano's conviction last week was achieved with the help of a former leader of the Bonanno family, Joseph C. Massino, who testified for the government.