Sentence examples for tried him for from inspiring English sources

Soon after he was convicted on that charge, prosecutors tried him for an unrelated murder.

A decade earlier, the French Army, trying to cover a security leak, had arrested a Jewish officer named Alfred Dreyfus, tried him for treason, and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

Although public authorities increasingly denounced his performances as dirty and sick and courts across the United States tried him for obscenity, Bruce was widely esteemed by artists and intellectuals and, after his death, emerged as a cultural icon among advocates of free speech and political humour.

Carlos A. Martir Jr., Mr. Milan's principal lawyer, suggested -- without explicitly saying it -- that the government had built its case against Mr. Milan for five years, and tried him for more than four weeks, because of his ethnic background and because he was trying to help the city.

"We tried him for the second half as the spare man in a back three," O'Driscoll said.

Eyschen was outraged that the Germans had kidnapped a Luxembourgish citizen and tried him for an extraterritorial offence, and Eyschen did nothing to hide his indignation.

"Libyans want to try him for what he did to them, with executions, imprisonment and corruption.

That court had jurisdiction to try him for the alleged offense if the ordinance was valid and binding.

"They wanted to try him for the same offence somewhere else".

The Obama Administration has called Snowden a traitor, and is intent on apprehending and trying him for treason.

Prosecutors in New York want to try him for assisting a terrorist group and have spent the year seeking his extradition.