Synonyms:
prosecution, criminal_prosecution
Meaning: the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior
Synonyms:
prosecution
Meaning: the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant
Usage examples
On their side, the prosecution produced one new witness in support of their case.
This would explain the circumstance, so baffling for the prosecution, that only eight hundred roubles were to be found in Mitya's hands.
No power over the lives and property of citizens, deemed necessary to the prosecution of the armed conflict, was withheld from the government.
Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country during the prosecution of the war.
Government contracts, high prices, and to some extent, no doubt, patriotic impulses, led to the investment of capital in the articles required for the prosecution of the war.
Its power is certainly much greater in France than in the United States; though nothing is more rare in the latter country than to hear of a prosecution having been instituted against it.
A council being held respecting the disposal of the new troops, it was decided that the Lennox men must remain with their earl in garrison; while those brought by Maxwell, and under his command, should follow Wallace in the prosecution of his conquests along with his own especial people.