Sentence examples for past prosecution from inspiring English sources

At a forum for candidates last month at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center in Manhattan, Ms. Snyder criticized Mr. Morgenthau's past prosecution of consensual sodomy and said he was slow to respond to complaints of police entrapment of gay men in sex shops.

Spain needs an honest accounting of its troubled past, not prosecution of those who have the courage to demand it.

"In the past the prosecution has fed partial information to tabloids that politically oppose me," Assange said.

In sensitive cases in the past, the prosecution has dropped charges if the judge orders the disclosure of information the government and intelligence agencies say they cannot release.

"He was in the beer garden of Clitheroe Kate's on Mincing Lane and people were constantly walking past," the prosecution, Catherine Allan, said.

In the past, such prosecutions have been extremely rare — three or four in history, depending on how they are counted, and never more than one under any other president.

But where past terror prosecutions have been based mostly on conversations about a planned or imagined attack, this one went further, the authorities alleged: the men went through critical acts in what they believed to be a deadly assault.

But when they ran the material past the Crown Prosecution Service they were told that there were no grounds for that kind of prosecution.

Last week, Parliament passed a constitutional amendment enshrining the principles of human rights but absolving any past abusers from prosecution.

The child kidnappings were not covered by past pardons, but prosecutions have been slow.

Some of the messages discussed pending cases, but it is not clear whether any of the disclosed material could jeopardize past or pending prosecutions.