Sentence examples for prosecutions from high-quality English sources.

• I have prosecuted terrorists as director of public prosecutions.

• Prosecutions have also dropped from 206 to 127 in the same time period.

• On October 3rd Boris Johnson, the prime minister, admitted that prosecutions are “going wrong”.

• Gabriel Schoenfeld, of the Hudson Institute, says, “The selectivity of the prosecutions here is nightmarish.

• On task is the new Wildilfe Crime Division of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.

• Witnesses will find it difficult to recall events …” Prosecutions will simply collapse.

• Baird said: “There is no complexity in why rape prosecutions and convictions have crashed.

• But there has been considerable pressure from the Conservative backbenchers to halt prosecutions of veterans.

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• Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) said there were only 57 cyber crime prosecutions in 2016, down from 61 in 2015.

• Police recorded 55,130 rapes but there were only 2,102 prosecutions and 1,439 convictions in England and Wales in 2019-20.

• The growing use of those agreements in major financial crime cases has, unsurprisingly, coincided with a drop in prosecutions.

• An army veteran himself, Mr Mercer has been a robust backer of a change in the law to protect them from "vexatious" prosecutions.

• He has control of the office of public prosecutions, which gives advice on and often conducts criminal prosecutions.

• The nineteenth century had seen prosecutions against Baudelaire, for Les Fleurs Du Mal, and Flaubert, for Madame Bovary, both for offending public morals.

• That is not to say there haven’t been prosecutions – but the evidence has never been sufficient to persuade a jury that a police officer should be responsible.

• Rape charges, prosecutions and convictions in England and Wales have fallen to their lowest levels in more than a decade, while police referrals have also fallen.

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• Congressional committees in the 1950s and 1960s conducted extensive probes into gang activities, but the power of the U.S. gangster was not broken by investigations, indictments, or occasional prosecutions.

• Indeed, an analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse found that between March 2018 and June 2018, federal prosecutions of non-immigration crimes fell in the five border districts, both as a percentage of total prosecutions and in absolute terms.

• Ms Saunders, who has been involved in high-profile cases including the retrial of Stephen Lawrence's killers, as well as prosecutions stemming from the London riots, will take over from Keir Starmer QC as Director of Public Prosecutions, Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC said today.

• Otherwise, it's a week of heavy legislating, with bills bouncing between the Commons and the Lords, and controversy over measures intended to protect military veterans from vexatious prosecutions (critics say it could prevent prosecutions for serious human rights abuses) and to authorise criminal conduct by undercover operatives to protect their cover (critics say that could amount to a "license to kill").