Sentence examples for prevent prosecutions from inspiring English sources

"A Democratic Congress has done its level best to prevent prosecutions in civilian court," Professor Chesney said.

As a result they have bumped up against statute of limitations that prevent prosecutions after a certain time limit.

The report concluded that top C.I.A. officers misled members of Congress when they portrayed the April 2001 episode as an anomaly in an otherwise well-run program, and that C.I.A. lawyers repeatedly intervened with Justice Department officials to prevent prosecutions in the case.

The court rejected the claim, but the lawmakers asserted Renzi's discussions about the land legislation should be protected by the clause, which was intended to prevent prosecutions of legislators based on their political views.

"They gave the order to start burning their files to prevent prosecution," said Hani Shakrallah, the editor of Al-Ahram Online, the Web version of a semiofficial daily.

In the e-mails included in the order, the executives said a memo containing the plan "MUST NOT be sent to the U.S.," to prevent prosecution.

These cases represent a "minuscule number" of actual crimes, said Anil Bairwal, the organization's national coordinator, as a large number of such crimes are not reported, and politicians are able to use their considerable influence to prevent prosecution.

Mr Nisman alleged Ms Fernandez secretly reached a deal to prevent prosecution of former Iranian officials accused of involvement in the bombing of Argentina's largest Jewish centre, which killed 85 people.

Hundreds of judges and prosecutors and thousands of police officers have been reshuffled to prevent prosecution.

And unfortunately, the law creates an opportunity for racial factors -- whether they're conscious or not -- to trump facts when even one juror who is sympathetic to a defendant's "reasonable" fear can prevent prosecution.

In King County, with good Samaritan laws that prevent prosecution of anyone who, in good faith, aids an overdose victim, and with wider use of the recovery drug Naloxone by first responders, overdose deaths actually dropped last year — 132, compared with 156 in 2014.