Sentence examples for escape conviction from inspiring English sources

If – as is probable – they escape conviction by the ICC (only one man has ever been convicted by it, and even that took six years), the message created to accused politicians will be a simple one.

Put under suspicion, Sophie needs help from everyone, plus her own resourcefulness, to escape conviction.

To escape conviction, he needs the support of one-third of the senators plus one, or 8 votes.

Even more telling, it often enables guilty offenders to escape conviction because it offends jurors' notion of justice.

And he might hope to escape conviction; after all, unlike General Mladic, he is not thought to have been at the scene of any massacre.

But even in the Senate, which would conduct a trial, a loose alliance of supporters could enable the president to escape conviction and keep his job.

We're supposed to see in Elizabeth a certain kind of complexity because she circumnavigates the ethics manuals in her effort to escape convictions.

Spreading the message that you can escape convictions using this line of reasoning is clearly not a good thing.

At those criminal trials executives often blamed reporters while reporters blamed executives, and many escaped conviction.

The Scott family attorney, Chris Stewart, argued that Slager had escaped conviction "by a hair".

Soon after, the criminals cleared the house of its crop and equipment, escaping conviction.