Sentence examples for was prosecuted on from inspiring English sources

Later, Mr. McCready was prosecuted on an assault charge but was acquitted.

After 30 years' residence in Athens, he was prosecuted on a charge of impiety for asserting that the Sun is an incandescent stone somewhat larger than the region of the Peloponnese.

Don Siegelman, the former governor of Alabama, has long insisted that he was prosecuted on vague corruption charges — for which he was sentenced to seven years in prison — because he was one of his state's leading Democrats.

A high-profile Danish campaigner for children's rights was prosecuted on Friday under people trafficking laws, shining a spotlight once more on the country's crackdown on asylum, as Scandinavian countries compete to make themselves unattractive destinations for refugees.

In 1984, after she was prosecuted on charges of anti-Soviet slander, Ms. Bonner joined her husband in exile in Gorky, on the Volga River 250 miles east of Moscow, a once-closed military city that has since reclaimed its prerevolutionary name of Nizhny Novgorod.

Harris was found guilty of all 12 charges he was prosecuted on.

The lawyer, Peter Ginsberg, however, contends Irvin was arrested on one charge and is being prosecuted on another.

Three have been rearrested — two on minor drug charges, one for shoplifting — and were prosecuted on the original charges.

By contrast, one of the Ahmadis is being prosecuted on charges of provoking the violence and could face a sentence of six years; prosecutors have not yet said whether they would seek the maximum sentence.

Four of the men arrested are Bulgarian and one is Afghan; they are being prosecuted on suspicion of people smuggling.

Only companies, not individuals, can be prosecuted on antitrust charges.