defend(PROTECT)
Can't you read the sign? It says 'Trespassers will be prosecuted!'
People who hand in illegal weapons will not be prosecuted during the amnesty.在赦免期内交出非法枪支的人将不会受到起诉。
He was prosecuted for having sex with a girl who was underage.他因和未成年少女发生性关系而被起诉。
You'll be relieved to hear that our clients have decided not to prosecute.
The company is to be prosecuted under the Sex Discrimination Act.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Taking legal action
abatement order
ambulance-chasing
appear for someone
bring
bring an action
complainant
enter
indict
indictment
lawyer
lawyer up
legal action
litigant
litigate
petitioner
prosecute
prosecution
prosecutorial
reindict
reindictment

prosecuteverb (CONTINUE)

[ T ]formal
to continue to take part in a planned group of activities, especially a war: 把…进行到底，继续参与（尤指战争）
He seemed convinced that the US would prosecute the war to its end.他似乎确信美国会将这场战争进行到底。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Continue & last
(it's) business as usualidiom
bash on
bubble away
carry (something) on
cease
cont.
drag
echo
immortally
in the makingidiom
insist on doing something
isochronous
leg
protraction
push ahead
push on
run on
run someone/something over
span
spin

Examples of prosecuting

prosecuting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The concern with prosecuting the transgressors of enclosure rather than the violators of chastity - the latter always entailed the former - reflects developments in secular legislation.
Sanctions extended from the disciplining of individuals to the closure of particular establishments, not to mention referral to the police and prosecuting authorities.
The definition is sufficiently wide to encompass all sectors including the judiciary and prosecuting authorities.
The next par t provides the medical context for shaping the prosecuting attorney's cross-examination of the defendant, and the defendant's response to her questions.
Women were also taking advantage of the courts' general lack of interest in prosecuting them, even when they clearly began riots.
In the present experiment, we are prosecuting the investigations in order to complete the understanding of this aspect.
But something interesting happens next: something in the address term embedded in the prosecuting attorney's negative truth tag (202).
Perhaps more unsettling than the double standard in prosecuting the robed brood was the one that existed in actual law enforcement.
A construction boom in the housing industry may have contributed to the decline of interest in prosecuting the janitors.
After all, the one was allegedly prosecuting a holy war, while the other was pursuing the secular goal of selfdetermination.
However, as should be stressed, my present interest does not lie in prosecuting a case against utilitarianism.
The prosecuting attorney begins her cross-examination with a litany of relatively factual yes 0 no questions about the defendant's height, weight, and athletic prowess, culminating in two general formulations.
Where the judicial system is sufficiently effective in prosecuting offenders, the optimal response was shown to involve policies which combine efforts to reduce corruption together with those which lower emissions.
After prosecuting fifty-five delinquents for a return of only £20.10, the stool gave up the attempt.
Moreover, by not prosecuting acts of male domestic violence under the criminal law, conciliation can legitimise male dominance over women and to a certain extent even the use of violence.
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