Sentence examples for powers of prosecution from inspiring English sources

And individuals within banks who supply rates could be made to go through an approval process with the regulator, which could be given more powers of prosecution.

Since being re-elected, he has given himself immunity from prosecution and is well on his way to reducing the judiciary's powers; there is a reform bill before parliament which would give powers of prosecution to a politically-controlled equivalent of the Crown Prosecution Service.

A factory inspectorate was established, the inspectors being given powers of entry into factories and power of prosecution of recalcitrant owners.

Mr. Spitzer understands the political power of righteous prosecution.

To be more specific, it means the judiciary power of the prosecution in the name of the people of France.

He also underlines the moral power of criminal prosecution; after a spate of terrorism-related convictions (and guilty pleas) in Britain, he says, the dialogue with British Muslims may now become more constructive.

"I want to believe in the power of the prosecution," Bedoya herself said at Wednesday's press conference.

They extended the executive branch's powers of surveillance and prosecution through the USA Patriot Act.

But it is very hard to understand how the threat of prosecution could have power over any officer with evidence of such a crime.

According to the French Wikipedia entry for Eva Joly, Claude Chabrol borrowed elements of her life and work for the film "The Comedy of Power," about the prosecution of a big businessman for corruption.

Asking Mr. Ruth to remain as his deputy was his first piece of business, Mr. Jaworski wrote in "The Right and the Power: The Prosecution of Watergate" (1976).