Sentence examples for prosecution merely from inspiring English sources

"This is a prosecution merely on the basis of suspicion.

As a result, specialists fear prosecution merely by treating a patient's suffering.

Thanks to a campaign by the NSS and others, the law has been amended so that "insulting" language no longer incurs prosecution merely because the police think it has the potential to offend; it has to be shown that an insult was directed at a particular person or a group, and that offence was taken.

1189, 25 L.Ed.2d 469 (1970), for example, he does not seek to terminate the prosecution but merely hopes to exclude evidence.

The case also involves the question whether, having passed such a law, valid on its face, the State can prosecute offenders in its own courts or whether United States courts have power to enjoin all state prosecutions merely because of a charge that the law is unconstitutional on its face, without first determining the constitutionality of the statute.

"If Assange can be prosecuted merely for publishing leaked classified documents, every single media outlet is at risk of prosecution for doing the exact same thing," the lawyer Bradley P. Moss wrote in The Atlantic.

The prosecution has merely to present sufficient evidence to prove there is "reasonable cause to believe" that Manning committed the offences.

Whether proscribed conduct is to be deterred by qui tam action or triple damages or injunction, or by criminal prosecution, or merely by defense to actions in contract, or by some, or all, of these remedies in combination, is a matter within the legislature's range of choice.

Dr. Petit is an important witness for the prosecution, not merely because he provides the jury with the face of a survivor, but also because in the case against Mr. Komisarjevsky, he provides prosecutors an account of the crime that casts Mr. Komisarjevsky as playing a more dominant role than Mr. Hayes.

These days, Nitschke is avoiding criminal prosecution by merely providing information on effective suicide techniques.

Stop". According to the prosecution, Chow merely pretended to keep his hands clean while making the introductions necessary for his criminal enterprises to flourish.