Sentence examples for prosecution represents from inspiring English sources

In criminal proceedings, the prosecution represents the people at large and has at its disposal the police department with its investigators and laboratories, while the defense must find its own investigative resources and finances.

The March verdict provides more details of the charges against Ms. Kadeer and appears to confirm human rights advocates' charges that her prosecution represents an arbitrary application of an extremely vague law to actions that most countries would not consider a crime.

Ms Loan said: 'This successful prosecution represents the importance of increased awareness and the need for social services amongst the vulnerable communities in Viet Nam where children are starting to speak up against their abusers.

Mr. Martoma's prosecution represented a watershed moment in the government's multiyear investigation of insider trading at SAC because for the first time, the government linked Mr. Cohen to the trading activity that it contended was illegal.

The rate of prosecutions represents a sharp increase on the last census, in 2001.

Nazir Afzal, of the Crown Prosecution Service, says the number of prosecutions represents "the tip of the iceberg".

He discovered that far from the Nuremberg prosecutions representing the impersonal application of abstract legal principles, there were very personal stories behind them.

The large numbers of fast-track prosecutions represent a substantial extra expense, but the program's supporters say it generally targets foreigners with serious criminal records who are likely to commit more crimes.

The prosecutions represent only a small fraction of the killings by U.S. police.

Sodomy itself, the pamphlet says, was widespread and becoming more so, and the numerous prosecutions represented likely just a fraction of the total incidences: "We have but too much reason to fear, that there are Numbers yet undiscover'd, and that this abominable Practice gets Ground ev'ry Day".

But the prosecution also represents a political decision that an international sport that has captivated a generation of US players should no longer be seen as above the law.