Sentences with phrase «even prosecuted»

We are constantly told that «the science» is settled, that 97 percent of scientists agree on «the science,» and that the benighted few who disagree must be shunned or even prosecuted.

More than ever, artists were condemned and even prosecuted, especially after the infamous attempts of particular political mechanisms to discredit, enable or even destroy art which embraced the ideas of equality, solidarity, modernization, and emancipation.

If they do, they can be easily fined or even prosecuted if they raise even a little suspicion for the regulators of those countries.

It also didn't prevent me from having flash backs in future births, wondering if I were to have experienced a poor outcome in spite of my best efforts, would that have been the end of my career and would I have been blamed, even prosecuted.

Extremists of any breed in America have no centralized authority which one could protest, sanction, or even prosecute.

Even private contracts are enforceable only to the extent allowed by laws; e.g. if I decide to gift my sons (or even myself) as slaves to my Church or Corporation then the state can void the contract and even prosecute me, and the Church or Corporation have no standing against me.

If we're going to use agencies of the federal government to investigate and even prosecute «climate deniers», for making «false and misleading claims» then let's damn well do the same for «climate alarmists», who do the same thing all the time.

Not exact matches

Even cities in red states, where until recently marijuana legalization appeared to have very little support, are passing laws to make sure fewer people are prosecuted for weed - related violations.

Even this office declines to prosecute more than half the cases referred to it by the SEC.

This, the office which Rudy Giuliani led to national prominence with his late - 1980s busts of junk - bond king Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, and the Drexel Burnham insider - trading ring, is one of the few outfits in the country that even know how to prosecute complex securities crimes.

Last year, Attorney General Jeff Sessions refused to rule out prosecuting people who sell cannabis, even when they do so in accordance with state laws.

Regardless of the defensibility of the Post «s argument about whether Snowden deserves to be prosecuted, which even the editorial board seems to be waffling on, there are two fundamental things wrong with this editorial approach.

But even then, a charge of unlicensed dealing falls far short of fraud, carries light penalties and may not be worth prosecuting.

But the SEC never prosecuted the worst offenders in the 2008 financial crisis — and it even failed to pursue Bernie Madoff, despite the fact that it had been tipped off about his scam long before he confessed.

Even so, much remains open to interpretation, but Sessions made it clear that he is not ruling out prosecuting people who violate federal law, even if they are in compliance with their state's laws in regard to medical marijuEven so, much remains open to interpretation, but Sessions made it clear that he is not ruling out prosecuting people who violate federal law, even if they are in compliance with their state's laws in regard to medical marijueven if they are in compliance with their state's laws in regard to medical marijuana.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made no secret of his contempt for marijuana use, and his Department of Justice is on the verge of releasing a report that many in the burgeoning legal cannabis industry fear will propose prosecuting people engaging in marijuana sales — even if they are in states that have legalized the drug locally.

Stateside, the Department of Justice and Securities & Exchange Commission have been even more aggressive in prosecuting that country's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, for an even longer period.

«If their motivation was either an attempt to deface, destroy or demolish these mementos or, even worse in my mind, that they were doing it for commercial gain, they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.»

«That Sudan continues to prosecute these men, and without even allowing them free access to their legal team, makes a mockery of the judicial process and is a clear violation of fair trial principles, as articulated in Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) and Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Sudan is a party.

Bishop Vilnet was not prosecuted, not even ticketed.

We were founded by Christians who had been prosecuted for their religion, even though they believed that the only way to God was through Jesus Christ, they had the wisdom to know that people should be able to worship in the way they chose.

No Christian writer of the New Testament, so far as our records reveal, ever faced the responsibility of applying high moral principles to preserving the institutions of society, administering governments, handling international relationships, prosecuting social reforms, or even mitigating by public measures the inequities of an economic system.1

Abraham is better on the Reformers because of his awareness that their actual theological practice is often superior to their sola scriptura polemical excesses, but even here he at times sounds more like a prosecuting attorney than a well - informed and fair - minded scholar.

Internationally, organizations like UNICEF and Free the Slaves have become increasingly savvy, even tying monetary assistance to government willingness to prevent, prosecute and protect.

Even in places where concerted efforts are made to root out slavery, the dynamics of human trafficking make it a crime difficult to prosecute.

i'm tempted even to say that time magazine should be prosecuted for child endangerment or distribution of child porn.

Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance said At a NYC Council budget hearing that his office prosecuted more than 7,000 fewer low - level criminal offenses in 2017 — and expects to «drive that number even lower» this year.

But with the immunity clause still in place, the excesses of these officials can not be checked as long as they are in office, thereby making the anticorruption campaign even more difficult to prosecute.

«Strikingly, these successes have come even though the Office of the Attorney General has long requested — and long been denied — original criminal jurisdiction to prosecute public corruption cases without first obtaining a specific referral from the Governor, Comptroller, or another State agency,» he wrote.

Obour must tell us how many people musigha has taken on foreign trips and how many of them have returned to Ghana over the years Obour must explain why even after renting part of our office building out to a chyrch, the union has not been able to put even dirty oil on the building as paint and has left the musigha building in such a dilapidated state Obour must tell us who are signatories to the musicians union of Ghana account and which bank / banks we save with These are just a few of the many questions I want answer for I'll only be part of your committee that is set up to investigate President Obour and possibly prosecute him.

However, even if you believed you'd found a brilliant and unassailable argument as to why failure to prosecute in this case constituted one of the rare exceptions to the general presumption that a prosecutor is acting permissibly when exercising prosecutorial discretion, you would still run into the problem of standing.

Even if the police did more, this is unlikely to be supported by a Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) that continues to prosecute single offences out of a catalogue of intimidation, thereby denying courts the opportunity to take into account a perpetrator's full behaviour.

Ward said the Moreland Commission; even if it was still active, had no power to prosecute.

Ms. Clark's predecessor, Robert T. Johnson, had been criticized by Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Correction Officers Benevolent Union for delays in prosecuting cases against inmates, even as slashings and assaults continued to rise.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who successfully prosecuted the former legislative leaders, as well as several other lawmakers, was not even in New York State.

He should revive the Moreland Commission as a truly independent body, with the power to investigate, subpoena, and prosecute public corruption throughout the state, even if it affects those close to him.

At a minimum, she ought to be raising questions as to why the local FBI Office and the local U.S. Attorney have not even bothered to investigate Raniere, let alone prosecute him.

Even though the matter is still pending in court with suspects being prosecuted, Naabu suggested he had information linking both the Upper East Region Minister and the Gender minister to the murder.

Committee chairman Keith Vaz told minister for women Harriet Harman:» [Commander Gibson] says it is very difficult to enforce a situation where a man is expected to ask a prostitute whether or not she has been trafficked and even if he gets a negative answer he is still to be prosecuted.

The arms deal corruption case proved harder to shake off, however, even after it was controversially dropped by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) just weeks before the elections which saw him become president.

I want corruption rooted out and prosecuted even when it comes in pink.

«The alleged spokespersons of the former President say that facts long in the public domain, some even being used to prosecute several corruption cases are lies and that those of us in government restating these well known facts are liars.

Under ordinary circumstances, if a resident would commit a felony or even a misdemeanor (petty theft, prostitution, drunk & disorderly) they are more likely than not going to be arrested, and most assuredly prosecuted.

The term prosecutorial discretion is commonly used to describe the wide latitude that prosecutors have in determining when, whom, how, and even whether to prosecute apparent violations of the law.

Bharara, whose office also successfully prosecuted former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on corruption charges, spoke at an evening forum at the College of St. Rose.

A number of critics have accused the government of failing to ensure the perpetrators of vigilantism are sanctioned, with many suggesting that even the ones who are arrested and prosecuted are «treated with kid gloves.»

Sir you are very right about the EFCC, but the problems they are facing is that this war can not be won any time soon because those who are suppose to prosecute the offenders are been bought by the cabal that are in this country & even we citizen are not coming out with one voice in support of the agency.

The «End New York Corruption Now Act» would also expand the powers of the attorney general's office to prosecute public corruption, create new criminal categories for undisclosed self - dealing and bribery, and change the pension forfeiture rule passed earlier this year to prevent state funds being used even to provide for a convicted official's spouse or children.

What would our communities be like if the criminal element knew they had only a one in ten chance of being prosecuted, even if we knew who they were and could prove they committed the assault?

At a Senate press briefing Tuesday morning, heads of the Senate Joint Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction said that it was time to bolster law enforcement officials» ability to arrest and prosecute drug dealers that put highly addictive heroin and even more dangerous opioids like fentanyl and carfentanyl on the street, after years of legislation aimed at prevention, treatment and insurance coverage.