Sentence examples for impeding the prosecution of from inspiring English sources

Whatever the outcome of the negotiations, Mr. Holbrooke said the State Department was not impeding the prosecution of the case.

She left New Delhi in a huff after Mr. Vajpayee rejected demands for ministerial posts and other concessions that could have impeded the prosecution of Ms. Jayaram and several associates on corruption charges stemming from her five-year tenure, ending in 1996, as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu state.

A truth commission investigated some of the worst massacres of the war, but El Salvador's Congress passed the amnesty law that impeded the prosecution of alleged war crimes.

And even more powerful impediments came in the form of chronic dissembling from African and international leaders, many of whom, including powerful members of the George Bush administration, felt sensitive to having their records called into question in an international court and thus impeded the prosecution.

In a decision that would dramatically impede the prosecution's ability to secure convictions and lock people away, Scalia condemned this practice.

"It is shocking that the inspector found that the characters in positions of power in the council allowed this to happen for so long and ignored and impeded investigations which would have led to the prosecution of perpetrators.

Even the Official Secrets Acts may be used against the press – by means of the controversial offence of onward disclosure of material whose publication impedes the detection or prosecution of crime.

The developments and reached goals of the prosecution of the research are also summarised here, together with future needs.

The bank agreed to pay $780m and entered into a deferred prosecution agreement on charges of conspiring to defraud the US by impeding the Internal Revenue Service.

And America's ambassador to Uganda has been urging support for the ICC's prosecution of the Lord's Resistance Army rebels, despite criticism from local community leaders who claim that the threat of arrest is impeding the peace process.On their own, these signals may not amount to much.

UBS agreed on February 18 , 2009to pay a fine of US$780 million to the U.S. government and entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) on charges of conspiring to defraud the United States by impeding the Internal Revenue Service.