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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
prosecute .
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Examples
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Mike Diehl, the reason VP Dick Cheney wasn't prosecuted is simple.
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Mike Diehl, the reason VP Dick Cheney wasn't prosecuted is simple.
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The only person who should be prosecuted is Dick Cheney.
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Merely stating that people who do something might be prosecuted is not enough to support a malicious prosecution case.
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Lynne Kiesling, who believes that rent-seekers should be prosecuted, is in an accusatory frame of mind concerning the latest energy legislation.
New Energy Legislation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The only reason any of these people are ever prosecuted is if they anger enough of their colleagues.
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In a war prosecuted from the air? — and apocalyptic rhetoric from Israeli politicians about crushing Pales – oops, they mean Hamas.
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But we are looking at the statute as a standard of conduct enforceable under the rules, not as creating a crime in itself (I imagine the likelihood of AGAG being prosecuted is approximately nil).
Balkinization 2007
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But we are looking at the statute as a standard of conduct enforceable under the rules, not as creating a crime in itself (I imagine the likelihood of AGAG being prosecuted is approximately nil).
Balkinization 2007
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But we are looking at the statute as a standard of conduct enforceable under the rules, not as creating a crime in itself (I imagine the likelihood of AGAG being prosecuted is approximately nil).
Balkinization 2007
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