Sentence examples for prosecution the first from inspiring English sources

Worse, the failure of the prosecution – the first to be brought since FGM was outlawed in the UK in 1985 – has delivered a grievous blow to the drive against the practice to which hundreds of thousands of women are still subjected each year.

"This prosecution – the first of its kind in the UK – shows the government will come down hard on people who knowingly break the law and file false information on the company register," crowed business minister, Andrew Griffiths, in a press release.

Commenting in a statement, information commissioner Elizabeth Denham said: "This prosecution, the first against Cambridge Analytica, is a warning that there are consequences for ignoring the law.

It can be an introduction to prosecution, often the first stop for new assistants.

Her arrest and prosecution marks the first criminal leak case under Donald Trump.

This work is intended as the prosecution of the first study about sloshing by the same authors, which was aimed at representing bladdered tanks using computational fluid dynamics without recurring to fluid structure interaction techniques.

The key witnesses for the prosecution included the first appearance of Roomy Khan, a central figure in the investigation that led to the conviction of Raj Rajaratnam.

The prosecution was the first since legislation making forced marriage a criminal offence was introduced a year ago and highlighted how the practice continues among some ethnic groups in Britain.

His prosecution was the first high-profile corruption case brought by Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo's public integrity unit.

Hence, the burden of proof would rest upon the prosecution in the first case and upon the claiming creditor in the second.

According to Howards, Hartman did not hold that a prosecution violates the First Amendment only when it is unsupported by probable cause.