Sentence examples for prosecution is less from inspiring English sources

This prosecution is less about Abacus or Tourre, in fact, than it is about the SEC.

Would a panel of judges, looking on their own at the facts of the case and posing their own questions to the accuser, the accused, and other witnesses, apart from the adversarial sparring of defense and prosecution, be less likely to take into account allegations of the accuser's unrelated misdeeds when considering the facts of the case against Strauss-Kahn?

Even though judges who were told that the information about the amygdala and MAO-alpha came from the prosecution were less likely to say they were influenced by mitigating factors; those judges still shortened sentences just as much.

Vance's decisions in the Weinstein and Trump cases may reflect the belief that public prosecutions are less winnable — or that the risk of losing is less tolerable — when the accused is rich, powerful, and able to move campaign donations in the right directions.

In any case, contra such objections, Manafort's prosecution today is less a sign of Mueller's overreach, and more a sign of the rest of our federal government's decades of underperformance.

"The likelihood of prosecution is much less important than understanding any vulnerability in their products," he said.

But today the rate of federal prosecutions for financial fraud is less than half of what it was then.

While the burden of proof technically falls on the prosecution, you need to have a solid defense so that the prosecution will be less able to poke holes in your claims.

In many cases treatment or counseling is less expensive than prosecution and incarceration.

Associates say Mr. Holder is open to prosecutions based on specific accusations but is less eager to use the criminal law to commence wide-ranging inquiries.

Add to all of this a portrait painted by the prosecution of Willingham that was less than flattering.