Sentence examples for prosecuted for trying from inspiring English sources

Others have been prosecuted for trying to steal seats.

Some have been prosecuted for trying to take seats, and even cup holders.

Garzón, of course, is one of the most high-profile judges in the world and what makes the case particularly ironic is that he is being prosecuted for trying to apply at home the same principles he so successfully promoted internationally.

These programs will not succeed if women who seek to report rape are intimidated, paraded before the media, and publicly shamed -- or even prosecuted -- for trying to bring their attackers to justice, as has happened on this case.

In the last several years, more than a dozen sheriff's officials were successfully prosecuted for using excessive force or trying to conceal misconduct in the jails.

Russian prosecutors have accused 30 Greenpeace activists of piracy and say they will prosecute all of them for trying to board an Arctic oil platform.

Speaking to foreign journalists on Friday night, Mr. Saakashvili said the former president's family had benefited from corrupt kickbacks but that he "personally would not like to see Shevardnadze tried or prosecuted for anything".

It's why wasn't Wieland Wagner tried and prosecuted for war crimes and mass murder.

Instigators of violence have been prosecuted for divisionism, but so have people trying to discuss the country's past or its current direction.

Mrs Arroyo had her predecessor as president, Joseph Estrada, prosecuted for corruption, and the country's special court for trying graft cases, the Sandiganbayan, sentenced him to life in prison.

Recently, several female members tried to have him prosecuted for defamation, which is a criminal offence in South Korea.