Sentence examples for prosecution declined from inspiring English sources

The prosecution declined to specify, according to the transcript.

After Kogut was acquitted, the prosecution declined to retry Halstead and Restivo.

Ron O'Brien, the Franklin County prosecutor who has hailed the case as a breakthrough in child-pornography prosecution, declined comment.

May 6, 2014 Alex Crawford (@AlexCrawfordSky) #oscartrial Seems very curious the prosecution declined to call these two closest neighbours.

A SPOKESMAN for the Pennsylvania attorney general's office, which is in charge of the prosecution, declined to comment for this column, citing the gag order.

A spokeswoman for the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which is handling Mr. Juma Khan's prosecution, declined to comment.

As petty immigration prosecutions more than tripled nationwide from 2003 to 2008, researchers at Syracuse University found that organized-crime prosecutions and drug prosecutions declined by 20%, and weapons prosecutions fell by 19%.

The department, citing United States court records, says that total federal tax prosecutions declined to 483 in 2003 from 1,431 in 1981.

The Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions declined to comment on the case.

The case was referred to the Justice Department for prosecution, "which declined prosecution pertaining to the alleged human trafficking allegations".

With prosecutions declining, he said, the public is left with imperfect and possibly misleading ways to gauge progress in the Bush administration's war on terrorism -- such as the number of secret warrants the government issues or the number of agents it assigns to terrorism cases.