Sentence examples for provoke prosecution from inspiring English sources
Aram's editors knew that they were likely to be prosecuted for publishing the book — in fact, they had done so precisely in order to provoke prosecution, both for publicity and as an act of civil disobedience.
There are now clear guidelines from the director of public prosecutions about what goes so far beyond free speech that it might provoke a prosecution.
The new UK law is expected to provoke similar prosecutions, high-profile convictions, costly fines and lawsuits.
Around the same time that Lustig was slicing scalps in Maniac, Sam Raimi was scaring the life out of everyone with The Evil Dead, a film whose UK release provoked obscenity prosecutions.
The prosecution provoked protests around the world.
To see what a successful Spitzer prosecution could provoke, look at what recently happened to Pfizer.
He added: "How did this commission fail so badly?" But the decision to refer cases for potential prosecution could provoke a different conclusion: It may yet satisfy public craving for what Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner once referred to as the "very deep public desire for Old Testament justice".
But whereas Mubarak's first trial (he is currently being retried) was greeted eagerly by most Egyptians, Morsi's prosecution has provoked mixed emotions.
When Moore spoke from the pulpit that night, he claimed that he had never met any of the women who had come forward with allegations (this contradicted earlier statements he had made) and suggested, nonsensically, that the whole episode was a conspiracy provoked by his aggressive prosecution of drug dealers some decades earlier.
Charging the pair 42 years after McCann's death will provoke controversy over the retrospective prosecution of members of the security forces over killings related to the Troubles.
His crime, according to the prosecution, was to provoke others into action by his support for a resistance movement against a projected high-speed train line between the French city of Lyons and Turin.
