The revelation of possible prosecutions amounts to a turnaround by Obama, who had been resisting a prolonged and divisive partisan row that could distract from his heavy domestic and foreign agenda.
Still, like others here, Mr. Thioub is not certain that last week's prosecution amounts to more than a symbolic gesture to appease international donors.
Just walk away?" Karen Patton Seymour and Michael Schachter, the prosecutors in the trial, were shrewd choices for the government in a case in which the defense was certain at least to suggest that the prosecution amounted to a government vendetta against a prominent person — and a particular kind of celebrity.
As of December 2014, there were 1,244 live confiscation orders under the responsibility of the Crown Prosecution Service, amounting to nearly £500 million, of which 31.5% was deemed "collectable".
Unbeknownst to the university, however, the other half went directly to Butler's bank account, which the prosecution said amounted to embezzlement.
That effort yielded 14 instances of fraud referred for prosecution, which amounts to a 0.00000017percentt fraud rate.
He also called investigative tactics sufficiently outrageous to justify reversal: "In my view, the government's investigation and prosecution of Jacobson amount to the deliberate manufacture of a crime that would never have occurred but for the Postal Service's overzealous efforts to create it".
Again, I understand from Linklaters that such actions do not amount to prosecutions or convictions and so I apologise to the inquiry for including these individuals in my first statement".
"You could do an enormous amount with prosecutions in banking," said Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future.
But, in the glare of the court, the prosecution case did not amount to a tin of beans.
