Sentence examples for prosecution driven from inspiring English sources

After a public outcry against her prosecution, driven by news coverage and supported by some Muslim clerics, a court released the girl, Rimsha Masih, on bail last month.

The U.S. State Department was slightly more forthright, calling Russia out for "selective prosecution" driven by "political considerations," but that took years, too.

It is clear that her calls for tougher Wall Street prosecution drove the bigger, tougher settlements JP Morgan and other bankers have had to agree to in the last year.

The evidence piled up in court by the prosecution drove away some of Tsarnaev's former well-wishers, said a 23-year-old Philadelphia woman who until recently administered a Facebook page called "Free Dzhokhar Tsarnaev" that has hundreds of members.

The good intentions have translated into a blizzard of international agreements on sharing information, amnesties through which tax evaders can come clean, and prosecution drives of variable quality to nail the cheats.

"In addition to flying in the face of recent findings in similar cases, this prosecution was driven by private interests.

Although few questioned Ms. Gu's role in the murder, rights advocates criticized her prosecution as driven more by politics than by exacting legal procedure.

Before he was incarcerated at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Cumberland, Maryland, Kim told The Intercept that the intensity of his prosecution had driven him to the verge of suicide.

More important, this prosecution is driven by the same plainly improper purpose that drove the one directed at Aaron Swartz and so many others: the desire to exploit the power of criminal law to deter and severely punish anyone who meaningfully challenges the government's power to control the flow of information on the internet and conceal its vital actions.

Those prosecutions were driven by the persistence of surviving family members and the painstaking work of journalists and documentary filmmakers.

But there is no real evidence that the prosecutions were driven by a thirst for revenge, except in the case of allied servicemen shot by Nazis or lynched by civilians.