Sentence examples for local prosecutions from inspiring English sources

"There were local prosecutions, but Bosco and his men were above the law," he added.

This meant that the book was subject to any number of local prosecutions.

Instead of relying on local prosecutions, American antidrug agents are concentrating on building cases for extradition to the United States.

In Geneva, the four investigating magistrates tackling complex international money-laundering affairs each have to handle another 30 run-of-the-mill local prosecutions.

The accords vary, sometimes allowing local prosecutions under certain circumstances, like when a crime is committed that has nothing to do with military activity.

British personnel were granted immunity from local prosecution.

And it would allow the department to assist in the inquiry and local prosecution if requested.

A local prosecution presented a conflict, he said, as the two officers were witnesses in other parish cases.

This is needed to provide a legal basis, including immunity from local prosecution, for the foreign troops remaining after 2014, by which time the majority will have left.

"If our diplomats are in another country," said the president, "then they are not subject to that country's local prosecution".

It also raised Iraqi concerns about the extent of its sovereignty because Blackwater guards had immunity from local prosecution, and stoked a debate about American dependence on private security contractors in the Iraq war.