Sentence examples for stop prosecutions from inspiring English sources

He campaigned on a platform to reverse the presidential system and return Turkey to parliamentary democracy, end the ongoing state of emergency, stop prosecutions of journalists and civil society members, restore the rule of law and send Syrian refugees back home to their country.

This, she says, would stop prosecutions being tied up in legal wrangling over whether humans were harmed, as many environmental cases currently are.: "If you put in a crime that's absolute you can't spend years arguing: you take a soil sample and if it tests as positive it's bang to rights".

While this is meant to change the tone towards users of medicinal cannabis and stop prosecutions that were regular under the Bush administration, the fact is, that this is does little to clarify or even ease the plight of those in the medical marijuana system.

In the Commons Keir Starmer, former director of public prosecutions and a new MP, will make a powerful speech about the state of the current law, and his guidelines that stopped prosecutions of those assisting suicide for compassionate reasons.

Lacking sufficient funding, the Justice Department stopped prosecutions of the Klan in June 1873, and Grant offered the Klan clemency in exchange for peace.

There was an attempt to right perceived wrongs in 1973, when Bangladeshi law authorised a war crimes tribunal – but the 1975 assassination of Bangladesh's first Prime Minister, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, stopped prosecutions in their tracks.

"Use immunity," for example, does not prevent a prosecutor from indicting a witness; it only stops prosecution using the testimony provided to the particular congressional committee.

Last week, a congresswoman from Silicon Valley proposed an amendment called "Aaron's law" to try to stop such prosecutions.

President Bush recently appealed to China to stop the prosecutions of Chinese-Americans on what appear to many in the United States to be spurious charges of espionage.

The prime minister is, however, expected to retain the right to stop potential prosecutions for reasons of national security, the grounds chosen by Tony Blair to stop the Serious Fraud Office inquiry into alleged BAE bribes to Saudi Arabia.

In addition, he announced he was launching a review this summer into changing the role of the attorney general so the new office holder, Lady Scotland, could no longer stop individual prosecutions, such as in the cash for honours inquiry.