Sentence examples for major prosecutions from inspiring English sources

The outspoken Gnaizda is the only person to say there should have been major prosecutions.

In the wake of 9/11, many major prosecutions were put on hold.

In one of her major prosecutions, Ms. Sotomayor helped win convictions of two men in a child pornography case.

The F.B.I. had completed an investigation of the Mafia that would provide the grist for several major prosecutions.

After failing to produce any major prosecutions stemming from the housing crisis, an expanded federal task force is planning a new tack, cracking down on financial firms suspected of improperly bundling home loans into securities for investors, officials said Wednesday.

But the attorney general said local jurisdictions were in the best position to investigate, and he noted several major prosecutions had already been brought in federal court in the Eastern District of New York.

The monthlong jury trial was the first major prosecution of Wall Street executives stemming from the housing collapse.

BEHIND THE NEWS The trial of Mr. Demjanjuk, 91, may be the last major prosecution of a Nazi war criminal.

Lengthy delays were called when the court asked the prosecution to ask the Central Intelligence Agency to reveal blacked-out parts of its cables related to an informer, Abdul Majid Giaka, who became a major prosecution witness.

Of the nine major prosecution witnesses, seven have been intimidated, by means including by death threats, said a United States Army judge advocate general who is advising Iraqi judicial officials.

The last major prosecution for apartheid-era crimes was that of Adriaan Vlok, a former minister who was given a 10-year prison suspended sentence for attempted murder after striking a plea bargain in 2007.