Sentence examples for was like prosecuting from inspiring English sources

Rumfitt said criticism of the paper's headlines, designed to sell papers, was like prosecuting "Persil for fraud for claiming it washes whiter".

Under President Obama, the department decided not to pursue charges against WikiLeaks, concluding it would be like prosecuting a news organization that publishes classified information obtained from sources.

Putting him on trial for the mortgage sins of Abacus, or other mortgage securities, is like prosecuting a footsoldier for war crimes.

Under President Barack Obama, the Justice Department decided not to charge WikiLeaks for revealing some of the government's most sensitive secrets on grounds that doing so would be like prosecuting a news organization for publishing classified information.

"Prosecuting this guy is like prosecuting the piano player in a whorehouse," said Bill Rosch, Boyle's attorney, in rich old-Western vernacular.

"When cops are involved, it's like district attorneys forget how to prosecute".

That would be like trying to prosecute a kid who had a swoosh cut into his hair at the barber shop".

A precocious tech whiz, Aaron also suffered from depression and was being prosecuted by a Javert-like U.S. Attorney's Office for downloading too many free academic articles when he took his own life at the age of 26.

Some of those years were spent prosecuting criminals just like Lawrence.

There are, of course, exceptions (for example, publicly funded district attorneys are responsible for prosecuting crimes like robbery or "criminal trespass"), but publicly-funded enforcement has traditionally been reserved for the detection and prosecution of invasions that rise to the level of a crime.

The man was successfully prosecuted.