Sentence examples for off prosecution from inspiring English sources
But a report bolstering Israel's reputation as a country that investigates itself could help ward off prosecution in The Hague.
Jacques Chirac, having managed to stave off prosecution while president, has now been charged in relation to a party-funding scandal during his term as mayor of Paris.
That a Munich court should have decreed that the Formula One tycoon Bernie Ecclestone could buy off prosecution for an alleged offence of bribery has astonished not only the German newspapers but even a former justice minister.
Nobody should forget that, either". The firm, based in Moyock, N.C., has been fighting off prosecution and lawsuits since a September 2007 incident in Baghdad, when its guards opened fire in a city square, allegedly killing 17 unarmed civilians and wounding 24.
But prosecutors expressed outrage, calling the move an "insulto natalino," or Christmas insult, signed by a deeply unpopular president who this year managed to stave off prosecution over accusations of condoning bribes, obstructing justice and helping mastermind a huge kickback scheme.
Hubbard, who told The Washington Post in December that he had hoped to stave off prosecution by working for the FBI, admitted that he misappropriated more than $50,000 in campaign money for illegal use and ordered members of his congressional staff to perform personal and political tasks for him while they were being paid by the government.
In some cases this was genuine, but in others it was a means to clean up their image and wrap themselves in the mantle of public-spiritedness while staving off prosecutions.
At first, many of True's colleagues in Europe brushed off the prosecution.
Under anti-terrorism laws, the attorney general also had to sign off the prosecution.
He made the "firm prediction" that none of these Negroes would survive the challenges off the prosecution during jury selec tion.
The administration invokes the possibility that an American on international police or peacekeeping duty in Bosnia could be maliciously accused and hauled off for prosecution in The Hague.
