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prosecute English

Meaning prosecute meaning

What does prosecute mean?
Definitions in simple English

prosecute Verb

— When you prosecute someone, you are taking legal action against a person, especially criminal legal action against the person if he/she has broken the law. — When you prosecute something (such as a scheme), you are carrying out or it to the end.

prosecute

— verb bring a criminal action against (in a trial) The State of California prosecuted O.J. Simpson — verb conduct a prosecution in a court of law — verb (= engage, pursue) carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in She pursued many activities They engaged in a discussion

Synonyms prosecute synonyms

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prosecute English » English

sue pursue chase persecute charge indict accuse try impeach engage transact practise perform implead exercise execute drive blame arraign wage use turn in torment taking civil actions take to court take legal action stalk shoo settle run reproach recriminate propel practice pay oppress lawsuit judge incriminate implement impel harrow go to court follow up finish file suits fault exert drive on do

Conjugation prosecute conjugation

How do you conjugate prosecute?

prosecute · verb

Examples prosecute examples

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Movie subtitles

I've a good mind to prosecute all of you for conspiracy.
Perhaps they'd rather believe the one that's going around, the one I'll tell, that you wouldn't hold Gallagher because you wouldn't prosecute your wife's ex.
I can't prosecute a case like that on a minute's notice.
Your face isn't right to prosecute a woman.
We must know who the signers are to prosecute them for breaking the anti-trust laws.
As attorney general, it's my job to prosecute.
You don't prosecute a machine that makes a mistake.
That mother's born to prosecute her daughter.
We're here to prosecute criminals, not collect money.
I say prosecute.
If you haven't got a body, you can't prosecute for murder.
I must ask you to speak for yourself, Mr. Jorkin! Well, what would you gain to prosecute me?
I'd much rather prosecute.
It is not merely to prosecute a lawbreaker, a young man who has spoken out against the revealed word.
I've decided not to prosecute.
But what good will it do you to prosecute Mr. Stapleton?
Did you prosecute a search?
I'd be glad to pay double what it's worth if only they won't prosecute.
I must ask you to speak for yourself, Mr. Jorkin! Well, what would you gain to prosecute me? All you would get out of it is about eleven pounds odd.
Are they going to prosecute or anything?
You gonna prosecute me?
Sam, they don't want to prosecute, they just want the money back.
I don't know if I can prosecute, but I think I can.
I'm appointed to defend you, this lady to prosecute.
She says when you hear what she has to say. you'll never prosecute him.
I assume that John Van Buren is to prosecute the trial, is he not?
I can't prosecute you for wishing someone's death. We have enough to do as it is.
He's afraid I'm gonna suddenly prosecute a shady client instead of defend him.
Yeah but you can't prosecute me.
So I have either to remove the governor, or prosecute the finance minister. One or the other.
Listen to this: I don't know if I can prosecute, but I think I can.
But to prosecute would have given you open publicity - and it wouldn't have reflected very well on me either.
Don't you realize they can prosecute you?
It wouldn't be good public relations to prosecute an old lady because she wanted to visit her daughter.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to prosecute a cop?
And the only reason I'm not gonna kill you. is because I'm gonna prosecute you with your own system.

News and current affairs

Why, then, do many countries prosecute the hate speech of racists?
It has also led the way in creating international criminal tribunals that prosecute and punish those who commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
Will newly elected President Susilo continue to prosecute journalists?
Should we therefore prosecute them?
The International Criminal Court will prosecute heads of states for war crimes.
One immediate consequence would be to abandon the US attempt to prosecute Saddam Hussein on its own and to invoke an international tribunal.
Indeed, in an effort to secure Pinochet's return, Chilean officials vowed for the first time to prosecute him themselves.
It has jurisdiction only insofar as national governments fail to investigate and, if appropriate, prosecute a case in good faith.
Milosevic's victims and survivors - mostly ethnic Bosnians, Albanians, and Croats - have little confidence that the Serb-dominated Yugoslav government, emerging from a decade of ethnic wars, will ever prosecute their cause in good faith.
Its apparent willingness to prosecute Milosevic at all is largely due to the threat of international justice.
It is only a little more than fifteen years ago that the first of the contemporary international courts was created to prosecute those who commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
This is why it is so important to capture and prosecute Radovan Karadzic, who spurred on the homicidal rage of so many Bosnian Serbs.
Transcripts were not released in real time on subsequent days, and they omitted some crucial details (for example, Bo claimed that the Party's representatives threatened to execute his wife and prosecute his son if he refused to cooperate).
Indeed, by launching the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, we know far more about the full horrors of that era than we would had we sought to prosecute people, or tried simply to move on.
Like Mamal, they, too, have been detained, and the government appears determined to prosecute them.
Because pirates committed their crimes on the high seas, beyond the territory of any state, the idea developed that they were enemies of humanity whom any state could prosecute.
The 1949 Geneva Conventions require states to search for those who have committed war crimes and either prosecute them in their own courts or turn them over to another state that is prepared to try them.
But he was also kicked out of Argentina, where he lived, and is threatened with extradition to Germany, where preparations are made to prosecute him for Holocaust denial.
That decision demonstrated, for the first time, that there was an institution that could investigate and prosecute the most serious international crimes regardless of where they occur.
The tension boils on thanks, in part, to the refusal of Gujarat's government to pursue and prosecute the perpetrators of the crime.
The Russian authorities are bizarrely continuing to prosecute him posthumously, as well as continuing to carry out the tax scams that he exposed.
But she said that this is exactly the scenario that Swedish police typically refuse to prosecute.
Witness the debate about whether or not to prosecute John Walker, the Californian who fought for the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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