Sentence examples for prosecution by a from inspiring English sources

They view the commission as a largely token effort because those responsible for abuses committed during military rule remain shielded from prosecution by a 1979 amnesty law.

As a Clinton administration lawyer in 1993, I wrote my first memorandum on the merits of criminalizing aggression for prosecution by a permanent international criminal court.

The issue is tied to American concerns that American soldiers not be subjected to prosecution by a new International Criminal Court.

In a case Congressional Democrats say is a politically motivated prosecution by a Republican administration, Dr. Wecht, a Democrat, is in federal court here facing 41 criminal counts.

Yet a recent "landmark" ruling has opened up the Sudanese and Libyan embassies, in London, to prosecution by a cook and a nanny over allegations of abuse.

Though Craigslist has faced an intensifying public relations crisis, it is shielded from prosecution by a federal law that protects internet providers from the actions of their users.

There were 46 inmates originally put into the category of being 'beyond prosecution' by an inter-agency panel in 2010.

In essence, the grand jury initiates a criminal prosecution, whereas, a trial jury, very often, concludes a criminal prosecution by delivering a verdict.

The civil case against Mr. Cooperman, filed in the Federal District Court in Philadelphia, would appear to sidestep a monkey wrench thrown into some insider trading prosecutions by a recent appellate court decision.

That was a corollary to the dilatory pursuit of war crimes prosecutions by a West German justice system that was riddled with lawyers and judges who were former Nazis.

(The bank itself avoided prosecution by signing a co-operation agreement with the Enron task-force).