Sentence examples for prosecution acts from inspiring English sources

But the threat of criminal prosecution acts as a powerful deterrent.

When monitoring fails, prosecution acts as a deterrent to future illegal activity.

The argument that retrospective threat of prosecution acts as a deterrent fails the vulnerable.

On environmental issues, he helped draft clean air laws, wrote the Pollution Prosecution Act of 1990, exposed lax security measures in nuclear power plants and supported minimum-wage increases and laws to protect whistle-blowers.

Kaptur is authoring a bill, H.R. 3995 the "Financial Crisis of 2008 Criminal Investigation and Prosecution Act of 2009," that gives the FBI 1,000 more agents and forensic experts and tells them to get cracking.

RUSSIA: PROTECTING PRESIDENTS -- Parliament's lower house voted 282 to 130 to approve a measure giving former presidents immunity from criminal prosecution for acts committed while in office, ignoring protests that they were inviting leaders to break the law.

The Bush administration refuses to designate them prisoners of war, a label that would entitle them to immunity from prosecution for acts committed during a lawful war, among other things.

Despite the general's reported "critical" condition, Indonesia's attorney-general vowed to press ahead regardless with civil proceedings against him.Until recently, heads of state and government, past or present, were commonly seen as immune from prosecution for acts, however vile, performed as part of their official functions.

In England and Wales, the Crown Prosecution Service acts on behalf of the US in taking the case through the courts.

A CPS spokesman said on Thursday: "The Crown Prosecution Service acts as agent for the Swedish government in the Assange case.

The amnesty law, passed in 1993, protected numerous government officials, military officers and guerrilla leaders from prosecution for acts committed during the 1980-92 civil war.