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Prosecution

noun

The institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior. Synonym: criminal prosecution.

The lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant.

The continuance of something begun with a view to its completion. Synonym: pursuance.

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"Prosecution" Quotes from Famous Books

... recognized human character in law, has not even an existence, whereas in England the law recognizes and protects the meanest subject, in theory always, and in fact to a certain extent. A prince of the blood could not strike the meanest laborer without a liability to prosecution, in theory at least, and that is something. In America any man may strike any slave he meets, and if the master does not choose to notice it, ...

— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe

... sentiment of those who accomplish it, and the lofty sentiment of those who witness it. No event is great in itself, even though it be the disappearance of whole constellations, the destruction of several nations, the establishment of vast empires, or the prosecution of wars at the cost of enormous forces: over things of this sort the breath of history blows as if they were flocks of wool. But it often happens, too, that a man of might strikes a blow which falls without effect upon a stubborn stone; ...

— Thoughts out of Season (Part One) • Friedrich Nietzsche

... the case of the prosecution, so to speak, fell through. For Blake, with a cry of surprise, drew forth from ...

— The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front - Or, The Hunt for the Stolen Army Films • Victor Appleton

... my mouth," she told him. "He has threatened me with prosecution. Perjury, he says it would be called, and prison would be ...

— Claim Number One • George W. (George Washington) Ogden

... violent attitude and demanded the utmost restitution; and since so many people were in the secret it was absolutely impossible to hush it up. I did my best; I offered everything I had in the world if they would let the matter drop without a prosecution, but it was useless. The thing had to go to court, and there was a ...

— The Making of a Soul • Kathlyn Rhodes

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