Sentence examples for on prosecution for from inspiring English sources

If we set an artificial limit on prosecution for genocide, we're basically saying you can get away with it if you're lucky enough, smart enough, rich enough, and if you can live long enough.

Obama could also, without Congress' input, simply direct Attorney General Eric Holder to shift his department's priorities in order to put a new emphasis on prosecutions for violations of gun laws that are already on the books, but which are currently less than vigorously enforced.

The UK has been criticized for lagging behind on prosecutions for the procedure and the situation has been called a national scandal.

The UK has been criticised for lagging behind on prosecutions for the procedure and the situation has been called a national scandal.

The threat of prosecution for murder based on medical or behavioral factors of pregnant women will cause those who need prenatal care the most to avoid it.

Justice Department spokeswoman Adora Andy declined to comment on the absence of prosecutions for foreclosure practices by big banks.

While ostensibly the blame is being placed on the prosecution for compiling a weak case against the defendants, what the Mubarak trial really highlights is the archaic and mangled workings of the Egyptian judiciary, and the failure of the law to include provisions that could bring to account police officers who opened fire with wanton abandon on citizens of the state.

Grant has a splendid chapter on the prosecution for obscenity in 1969 of the publisher of Paul Ableman's historical and psychological treatise The Mouth and Oral Sex – written, says Grant, with the "ingenuous and artless delight" of a butterfly collector for his subject.

Increasing the number of prosecutions for lying on background-check forms is an effort that the administration can undertake largely on its own, in part by pressing federal prosecutors to pursue such cases.

But his crime against humanity was in law unforgiveable – that is why – such crimes have no time limits on prosecution and no provision for early release.

Officers feared that documents on which a prosecution for corporate manslaughter would have to be based would be barred from use.