Sentence examples for prosecution off from inspiring English sources

Ultimately, unless you find that breadcrumb trail that takes you to somebody, you're never going to get a prosecution off the ground in reality.

In a series of conversations last week, leading members of Simpson's defense team floated this new and provocative theory as part of both the public-relations war surrounding the case and their continuing effort to keep the prosecution off balance.

In this effort, the prosecution got off to a slow start.

Peter Weinzierl, a Meinl Bank board member, elaborated in an interview, arguing that the prosecution was off base.

His arrest and potential prosecution set off protests, including demonstrations in Sacramento, which has a large Hmong community.

Her hands move emphatically to punctuate her points, as does her intonation (as in, "Amanda Knox didn't at all change her story" and "the prosecution brushed off questions" about the strength of its evidence).

He wants federal controls over interest rates and prosecution of those ripping off home owners facing foreclosure due to sub-prime mortgages.

"One of the difficulties for the SFO in getting successful criminal prosecutions off the ground against corporates are the legal technicalities around the 'controlling mind' test [meaning an offence must have been committed by a senior individual].

IN one of those ironies that novelists relish, the on-again-off-again rape prosecution of the former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn seems to have gravely damaged the political careers of both the prosecutor and the defendant.

Comey's decision to shrug off prosecution was based on decades of "gross negligence" prosecutions, or more accurately, a lack thereof.

Frequently, he takes more time than the prosecution and goes off into political arguments.