(n.) The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the prosecution of war.
(n.) The institution and carrying on of a suit in a court of law or equity, to obtain some right, or to redress and punish some wrong; the carrying on of a judicial proceeding in behalf of a complaining party, as distinguished from defense.
(n.) The institution, or commencement, and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information.
(n.) The party by whom criminal proceedings are instituted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
(2) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(3) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
(4) The Labour MP urged David Cameron to guarantee that officers who give evidence over the alleged paedophile ring in Westminster will not be prosecuted.
(5) While it’s not unknown to see such self-balancing mini scooters on the pavement, under legal guidance reiterated on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service all such “personal transporters”, including hoverboards and Segways , are banned from the footpath.
(6) The force is liaising with the Crown Prosecution Service over its inquiry.
(7) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
(8) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
(9) The bench rejected the petition seeking prosecution for offending Hindus, saying it was a work of art and citing India's tradition of graphic sexual iconography.
(10) Under Lynch, the eastern district is currently prosecuting at least five cases relating to the prostitution of US minors or sex trafficking – more active prosecutions than any other US attorney’s office in the country, according to knowledgeable observers.
(11) Michael Brown’s parents, appearing on the Today show on Tuesday, said they believe the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, would be alleviated by the prosecution of the officer who shot and killed their son.
(12) The Iraqi prime minister has fired several senior security force commanders over the defeats in the face of Isis and on Wednesday announced that 59 military officers would be prosecuted for abandoning the city of Mosul.
(13) Last week the prosecution dropped a series of allegations that Gail Sheridan, also 46, had lied on her husband's behalf by providing a series of false alibis to cover up his affairs and trips to Cupids.
(14) "The allegations were both serious and credible; the prosecutor should have recognised this and sought to build a prosecution … had police and prosecutors taken a different approach a prosecution might have been possible."
(15) A mother is facing prosecution for procuring abortion pills for her then underage daughter.
(16) Maberley told him there were 6,000 instances of phone hacking, although only one case had been prosecuted, involving the royal reporter Clive Goodman, who subsequently went to jail.
(17) It has estimated that there could be up to 240 prosecutions a year, of everyone from healthcare assistants to consultant surgeons, as a result.
(18) We can confirm that Oscar Pistorius’s leave to appeal has been denied … The court dismissed the application for leave to appeal because there are are no prospects of success,” Luvuyo Mfaku, spokesperson of the National Prosecuting Authority, told reporters.
(19) Conclusion In this case there has always been and, despite the efforts of the prosecution team to resolve issues, there remains an irreconcilable conflict between Dr Patel on the one hand and the other experts on the other as to the cause of death.
(20) The prospect of prosecutions has already led to rows between the Obama administration and members of the Bush administration led by the former vice-president Dick Cheney, who said CIA morale would be damaged.
Pursuance
Definition:
(n.) The act of pursuing or prosecuting; a following out or after.
(n.) The state of being pursuant; consequence.
Example Sentences:
(1) A hymn to the depravity of Edinburgh that balances the noble pursuance of art.
(2) The last few decades have witnessed the arrival of so many diverse groups from nearly all parts of the world that an intimate and in-depth knowledge of these disease patterns is now essential to the pursuance of competent medical practice in the UK.
(3) In pursuance of an investigation of oesophageal physiopathology, a study has been made of the problem of the functional regulation of the inferior oesophageal sphincter in the light of new findings.
(4) But in outlining Australia’s opening arguments, Gleeson said legal professional privilege did not apply where the communications were produced in the pursuance of a criminal offence, fraud or other improper purpose.
(5) He added: "A man of Warren's criminal standing and connections has access to a wide variety of resources, methods, and personnel in pursuance of the concealment of assets around the world."
(6) Preventive measures are always recommended, including minimal effective dose corticosteroid therapy, sodium-free diet, calcium and vitamin D supplement, sex hormone replacement and pursuance of physical activities.
(7) In pursuance of genetic studies, after exposure to ethylmethanesulfonate, 11 auxotrophic mutants of Crithidia fasciculata were cloned.
(8) He cites the principles of professional conduct enunciated by Britain's General Medical Council, which hold that, "in pursuance of its primary duty to protect the public the Council may institute disciplinary proceedings when a doctor appears seriously to have disregarded or neglected his professional duties, for example by failing to visit or to provide or arrange treatment for a patient when necessary."
(9) In pursuance of the investigations of grain samples since 1971 DDT-, DDE-, alpha-, beta- and gamma-HCH as well as HCB-residues have been determined.
(10) For the facial muscles a confusion results from the use of the term platysma both in comparative anatomy and in embryology, in pursuance of transposition, exact on that particular point, of the philogenic development of these muscles in ontogenesis.
(11) Outside his New York home, Grossman was questioned on whether he thought his pursuance of $100m from the war-ravaged country was fair.
(12) (3) The use of regular and also strict parental controls of the child's attitude towards cleanliness, as well as the continuity and systematic pursuance of this hygiene-orientated education is far more spread in France and in Spain than in the Federal Republic of Germany.
(13) The expulsion of such a refugee shall be only in pursuance of a decision reached in accordance with due process of law.
(14) These cuts represent everything that is wrong and unjust about the Conservative government’s pursuance of an austerity agenda: it is the poorest, the most-disadvantaged and those who most need support who suffer the greatest.
(15) In its usual form, school sports is neither calculated to motivate a lifelong pursuance of sports, nor is it particularly suitable for primary prevention of coronary heart disease.