Sentence examples for proxy prosecution from inspiring English sources

The trial has the air of a proxy prosecution of the Bush Administration, but its outcome won't have any effect on the White House.

Mr. Moussaoui, a 37-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan heritage, is the only person to be charged in an American courtroom in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks, and so in a sense his trial is a proxy for the prosecution of the 19 hijackers killed that day.

Second, this is the first criminal prosecution relating to the near Wall Street meltdown, thus making it a proxy for indictments to come.

Focus on Frisking Whether the four officers were the proxies for or victims of their department's policies is an issue both the prosecution and the defense have danced around in the trial.

The prosecution had called a single witness: Ross-Cornes, the solicitor who had seen the play as Whitehouse's proxy and served the writ on the director.

The judges agreed with the prosecution that diamonds mined in Sierra Leone were used to pay for arms and ammunition for Mr. Taylor's proxy army, and that rough diamonds were delivered to Mr. Taylor's house in Monrovia, the Liberian capital.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan .— The prosecution of a Planned Parenthood affiliate here, the first such criminal case in the nation, has been treated locally as something of a proxy in the battle over abortion rights.

The prosecution never asked.

The prosecution begins tomorrow.

It again escaped prosecution.

Another prosecution witness, Pfc.