Sentence examples for serious prosecutions from inspiring English sources

The need for some serious prosecutions and jail time for people evading tax.

Chief among them must be a real effort to stop the brutality of the security services, beginning with serious prosecutions of kidnappers and murderers.

Take another example: in Vietnam, the effect of the chemical Agent Orange used by Washington during the war continues to deform children, yet there has never been any serious prosecutions for the horrific crimes committed in the name of "fighting communism".

This is the first serious prosecution of senior politicians accused of corruption in modern Kenyan history.

Mr. Gair, Mrs. Diallo's lawyer, said there were several serious prosecution mistakes that could meet that Justice Department requirement.

"While many 19-year-old kids are facing prosecution for unlawful dowloading of music, this 19-year-old is facing a far more serious prosecution," he said.

Evidence of innocence is rarely black and white but it is surely relevant to note the many convictions quashed after revelations of distorted forensic evidence (Sally Clark and Barry George being two of the best-known cases); grossly unreliable witnesses (including some harrowing cases of wrongful convictions for sexual offences); and serious prosecution non-disclosure.

Bennett says his work was in the best interest of a company facing serious prosecution.

A very powerful aristocrat, the Duc de Rohan, accused Voltaire of defamation, and in the face of this charge the untitled writer chose to save face and avoid more serious prosecution by leaving the country indefinitely.

However, Suharto himself was protected from serious prosecution by politicians who owed their positions to the former president, as indicated in the leaked telephone conversation between President Habibie and attorney-general Andi Muhammad Ghalib in February 1999.

One of the most serious recent prosecutions of sex abuse and street grooming - in which 10 men were convicted - was initially shelved because of doubts over the credibility of the victims as witnesses.