Sentence examples for to make convictions from inspiring English sources

Reforms are needed in the law enforcement system to make convictions more possible and punishments more convincing.

Mr. Kris testified that because the offense was not generally considered to be part of the traditional laws of war, its use could make convictions vulnerable to reversal and could undermine the system's legitimacy.

Scant evidence, the difficulty of weighing contrasting accounts and the severity of the prison sentence (not to mention the dismal experience in jail for a convicted rapist) make convictions unlikely.

This is not an unusual practice; combining major felony charges with conspiracy charges can make convictions easier to obtain.

To raise the standard in that part of a capital case, he said, would make convictions impossible.

Such proposals, which make convictions more difficult, address concerns common among liberals about over-criminalization and mass incarceration.

And while she never doubted that Michele was being true to her private convictions, she couldn't comprehend Michele's need to make those convictions so public, to put them in the foreground of her political career, and to drive a wedge into their family.

But defense lawyers say the rule was devised to make obtaining convictions easier.

Italy's court of cassation could take a year or more to decide whether to make the convictions final.

Commissioner Kerik, who appeared before the council committee with Steven M. Fishner, the mayor's criminal justice coordinator, said the proposal "would give drug traffickers the opportunity to make their convictions disappear".

Downing Street has pointed out that the coalition changed the law – in the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 – to allow men convicted of homosexual activity to apply for a "disregard" to make their conviction "spent".