Eksempler på prosecute

• It persecuted and prosecuted dissenters and recusants who stood in its path and it proclaimed its right so to do in innumerable sermons and treatises.

• Many other examples, ranging from neighbours arguing over trespass to alleged thieves being prosecuted before sheriff courts, could be given.

• Violence between spouses, partners, parents or children has been less likely to be prosecuted than 'public ' violence.

• Democracies require that criminals be apprehended with evidence and prosecuted through the legal system before being sentenced.

• Although their treachery was irrefutable, the authorities thought it wiser not to prosecute.

• To be sure, it is not at all easy to uncover decisions not to pursue or prosecute thieves, or to understand just why investigations failed.

• The concern with prosecuting the transgressors of enclosure rather than the violators of chastity - the latter always entailed the former - reflects developments in secular legislation.

• How this revolution was to be prosecuted was never systematically discussed, nor were other options explored.