Sentence examples for formal prosecution from inspiring English sources
Whitgift had no hesitance in closing down the prophesyings, but he proceeded with caution in formal prosecution of Puritans.
She fled in secrecy, fearing that the TV report accusing her was just a step away from formal prosecution.
After some weeks of investigation, he launched a formal prosecution of the SS guards whom he identified as responsible, and indicted the camp commandant as an accessory.
Today's disclosures emerged in a report commissioned by the Health Department in response to widespread suspicions that the number of victims was considerably higher than those covered in the trial or knowable through formal prosecution.
In the vast majority of cases that did not lead to formal prosecution, he said, investigators subsequently charged the cadets making the accusations with the very infractions they had promised to overlook.
Prosecutors filed court documents indicating that at least six of seven elected officials recorded by Ms. Huntley were the subjects of criminal investigations, even though they dismissed much of what she said as unreliable and decided not to enter a formal prosecution agreement with her.
Moreover, several of the major plotters, despite leaving an abundant paper trail documenting their activities, escaped any formal rebuke, and instead suffered varying degrees of public humiliation, while a few others bore the brunt of formal prosecutions.
Gomułka conducted some purges and reforms but did not want to destabilize the security system, now under his control, by wide-ranging formal prosecutions.
As the Navy begins to close its books on the Tailhook scandal--with seemingly little to show for it in terms of formal prosecutions and punishments--critics are asking whether the worst such episode in modern naval history was all for naught.
All these activities would remain technically illegal, but with formal exemption from prosecution, in line with Dutch practice.
Claims that police stopped individuals from marching or protesting by dispersing or redirecting the crowd (in violation of the First Amendment) or that police temporarily seized them (without formal arrest or prosecution) will not produce large damages awards.
