Sentence examples for prosecution power from inspiring English sources

"Given the scanty resources that have been committed to corporate crime enforcement, I think the government's leveraging of its prosecution power from corporations and their lawyers has been critically important," said Daniel C. Richman, professor of law at Columbia and a former assistant United States attorney in New York.

Now -- ironically, just as Buffett's letter was being published, the man it'll take to make it happen -- Christopher Dodd -- is agreeing to defang the agency, strip it of independence and most prosecution power -- its a victory for all those Republicans and business groups who've poured billions --inclulding bailouts of bailout dollars - into lobbying against any agency with teeth.

Since 2007 it has also had prosecution powers.

The 342-page law is a compendium of increased police and prosecution powers.

6.52pm: McDermott says the FSA has used its criminal prosecution powers in insider dealing cases, but doesn't have such powers in the Libor rigging case.

The law, passed overwhelmingly in Congress just 45 days after the terrorist attacks, is a grab bag of enhanced police and prosecution powers.

Mr. Ashcroft and his Republican allies, for their part, offered a muscular attack on their critics, fortified by polls that show overwhelming support for the administration's new police and prosecution powers in the fight against terrorism.

During her speech, the home secretary announced that the police prosecution powers are to be extended to take over nearly 50% of the cases that go through magistrates' courts.

When the home secretary, Theresa May, addressed the Police Federation conference last week, in between the heckles and harangues, she announced police prosecution powers were to be partly restored, so as to take over nearly half of the cases that are heard in magistrates' courts.

While Harper's new anti-terror bill targets online hate speech "promoting terrorism," it limits prosecution powers to sites hosted within Canada thereby allowing Twitter jihadists to escape a crackdown from Ottawa.

Savanaramuttu, the analyst, believes that war crimes allegations make it impossible for the Rajapaksas to contemplate surrendering the impunity from prosecution that power and office brought.