Sentence examples for prospect of prosecution from inspiring English sources

She raised the prospect that the Central Intelligence Agency might have been eager to remove Mr. Montesinos from Peru as he increasingly faced the prospect of prosecution there.

There was immediate speculation that the autocratic leader's defiant announcement had been prompted by the prospect of prosecution under the new government.

"The current regime is less safe than in other countries where the practice is permitted … No doctor will provide assistance when they face the prospect of prosecution".

This leaves only one avenue that offers any prospect of prosecution and that is the Palestinian request now before the prosecutor of the I.C.C., Luis Moreno-Ocampo, for an investigation into whether international crimes have been committed on Palestinian territory.

He added: "There are crimes here that I think are worthy of investigation, in which you could have a reasonable prospect of prosecution.

It is likely that police would have considered such a charge before he was released on Sunday night, but did not have sufficient evidence for a reasonable prospect of prosecution.

The prospect of prosecutions has already led to rows between the Obama administration and members of the Bush administration led by the former vice-president Dick Cheney, who said CIA morale would be damaged.

Scotland Yard obviously knows something about "burying bad news", although the prospects of prosecutions always seemed quite remote in the first place.

And, unlike in the United States, in the Europe Union price fixers do not face the prospect of criminal prosecution.

Certification, carrying with it the prospect of criminal prosecution for the signatories if the accounts later proved to be fraudulent, would presumably not be done lightly.

Although there may not be a "systemic problem," that is little solace to individuals facing the prospect of criminal prosecution without the tools to adequately defend themselves.