Sentence examples for defendants against from inspiring English sources

The new enforcement policy reverses the Bush administration's approach, which strongly favored defendants against antitrust claims.

The judge on both days warned the defendants against making incendiary speeches that could revive the violence in Kenya.

The new enforcement policy would reverse the Bush administration's approach, which strongly favored defendants against antitrust claims.

"The Speedy Trial Clause protects defendants against prejudice caused by delays in their trials, not against the harms of interrogation of enemy combatants," the panel said.

Seven men were arrested and stood trial, but in spite of direct testimony by two of the defendants against the other five, all were acquitted after the jury's nine-minute deliberation.

The rights of the accused, too, were determined by case-by-case adjudication, and the major reforms that would protect defendants against the excesses of local law enforcement were years away.

Mexico's Constitution protects a defendant against self-incrimination.

It said that in February 2008, Mr. Goffer warned Jason C. Goldfarb, another defendant, against making trades that were too obvious.

"This was an assassination attempt by this defendant against Officer Brennan, who showed Herculean restraint" in not firing his weapon, the prosecutor, Lewis Lieberman, said.

One comes to a case like this one — pitting a powerful defendant against a vulnerable putative victim — with an instinctive sympathy for the underdog.

When the song was over, the audience cheered a kind of desperation cheer, as one might cheer an acquittal verdict for a defendant against whom the case looked bad.