Sentence examples for prosecutions only from inspiring English sources

Other states usually initiate secondary prosecutions only when they are concerned that a death sentence will be overturned on appeal, but Virginia's Supreme Court rarely does that.

In some cases local authorities go through expensive and time-consuming prosecutions, only for the magistrate to give the landlord no more than a slap on the wrist.

Vera Baird, police and crime commissioner for Northumbria, said: "It is straightforward to increase the percentage of convictions to prosecutions – only take the certainties to court.

While cases of trafficking in brothels have been the subject of high-profile prosecutions, only a small number of prosecutions have focused on cantinas, mostly in Houston.

Such prosecutions only move the nation backward to the day when Russia's powerful routinely chose who paid a price for breaking the law.

A lawyer for Mr. Gravano, Larry Hammond, said it seemed doubtful that Mr. Gravano would cooperate so thoroughly in the Gambino prosecutions, only to turn around and get involved in the distribution of a drug used primarily by teenagers in clubs and at parties called raves.

Of the remainder, 150 were considered as serious candidates for prosecution, but only one was prosecuted.

The naked are now threatened with prosecution only at a few beauty spots, like Yorkshire's beaches.

Judge Koeltl, he said, should have allowed prosecution only when the people charged knew their support would aid terrorist activities.

She points out that of the nine individuals named referred for possible prosecution, only one has ever faced any penalties.

It allows prosecution only if the publisher intends for the information to be used to break federal laws.