Sentence examples for escape convictions from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

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

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.

1990s: Fall of the 'Teflon Don' The Gambino family reached its peak of notoriety in the 1980s under the lead of John J Gotti – dubbed the "Teflon Don" for his ability to escape conviction.

The dispute would transform the so-called "balcony leap case" - a story of how a British family on holiday bloodily self-destructed in public - into one of the most talked about in living memory: was Hogan a father driven mad or a murderer feigning insanity to escape conviction?

As Trump's biographers Marc Fisher and Michael Kranish tell the story, Roy Cohn, who lived for decades under various indictments for bribery, extortion, and other sins, and yet always managed to escape conviction, first instructed Trump more than forty years ago in the dark arts of counterattack and an over-all "go to hell" philosophy.