Sentence examples for hostile prosecution from inspiring English sources

Ms Sundberg-Weitman said Ms Ny was mounting a "malicious" and "hostile" prosecution of Mr Assange.

After leaving Screw for The Times in 1974, I was subpoenaed as a hostile prosecution witness at Goldstein's federal obscenity trial in Wichita, Kan., though my defiant testimony did not help the government's case.

Zinta was the only witness who did not become hostile to the prosecution; the nation responded positively to her actions.

A month after the film's release, a court acquitted the main accused because of inefficient prosecution and hostile witnesses.

With a legal team friendly to the President in place, and a hostile prosecutor out of the way, Zarrab may be hoping for a sweet deal from the prosecution.

In that case, too, prosecution witnesses turned "hostile".

The manager of the Hotel Mahendra, called as a prosecution witness, turned hostile on the stand.

11 opinion would turn, and their harsh treatment of prisoners from Al Qaeda would be subjected to hostile scrutiny and possible criminal prosecution.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Threatened with prosecution by a hostile judiciary and fearing an intervention by powerful generals, Pakistan's embattled government turned Friday to its last bastion of strength, the national Parliament, in a bid to stall the momentum of a crisis that threatens to engulf the governing party.

It took 13 years for a court in Mumbai to convict actor Salman Khan of culpable homicide and sentence him to five years in prison despite prosecution witnesses turning hostile.

In March 1991, Michael R. Milken, once the richest and most powerful financier of his generation, entered prison, signaling the end of an era of junk bond-financed hostile takeovers and high-visibility prosecutions that law enforcement officials hoped would deter insider trading for generations.