Sentence examples for through an officer from inspiring English sources

As criminal prosecutions are instituted by the state through an officer selected for that purpose, he is vested with a certain discretion with respect to the cases he will call to their attention, the number and character of the witnesses, the form in which the indictment shall be drawn, and other details of the proceedings.

And every act of putting ourselves between animals and cruelty -- whether through a law or through an officer of the law -- makes a difference.

A police dispatcher, speaking through an officer's radio, says officers received a call about someone "trying to break into the door".

It's the same again and again - from Breathless, through An Officer and a Gentleman, all the way to Pretty Woman and beyond.

That Day employed the agency through W. Sherman Burns, an officer then in New York.

He got through five before an officer handcuffed him and detained him for about 20 minutes.

Trudging through the snow, an officer asked Hayden to take off his skis and come with him back to the operations center.

While looking through the bag, an officer came upon an envelope attached to the diaper that was addressed to a medical office in Fullerton.

"The initial report indicated somebody fired a shot through the door,, striking an officer in the chest," she said.

Twelve minutes after the call yesterday Moat is believed to have shot an officer through the passenger window of his patrol car.

But along the way, through a conversation with an officer at a major charitable trust, Cahn came across an idea that he found much more compelling.