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Example sentences for "prosecuting"

Lexicographically close words:
prose; prosector; prosecute; prosecuted; prosecutes; prosecution; prosecutions; prosecutor; prosecutors; proselyte
  1. From this point he retraced the channel, but not finding any water for three miles below the lower junction, he returned to the camp, with a view of prosecuting a longer journey on the morrow.

  2. By prosecuting this business in a day of light and reform, you peculiarly offend God, and jeopard your immortal interests.

  3. His persistent hostility to official swindlers, and his zealous activity in prosecuting Tweed to conviction, are well known to you.

  4. DEAR SIR,--I enclose draft of a bill appropriating twenty-five thousand dollars for expenses prosecuting the ring suits.

  5. The proper steps for securing this measure of redress have been pursued with all proper diligence; and, until this time, there did not seem to be any utility in prosecuting any other line of action.

  6. He was indignant at O'Connell's manner of prosecuting his political objects, and resolved to put his feelings on record.

  7. He will not take any money, and he will neither relinquish his claims to the Spanish throne nor move hand or foot in prosecuting them.

  8. Massachusetts is also in the lead in prosecuting a precise determination of town boundaries by a systematic reference of all corner marks to the stations of the triangulation that now covers the State territory.

  9. Alfric, with equal wisdom, withdrew from prosecuting the hopeless cause, in which his opponent might possess an advocate in the royal judge, and a friend in the king's consort.

  10. Our first visit in Danbridge was to the prosecuting attorney, whose office was not far from the station on the main street.

  11. When the prosecuting attorney asked her to continue, she remained silent; her eyes rolled and her whole body shook convulsively.

  12. Does their lack of means to prosecute relieve them from prosecuting native or French heretics?

  13. Not being able to secure the attendance of all my witnesses, my attorney wrote the prosecuting attorney asking his consent that my case be continued.

  14. The prosecuting attorney of Bourbon County, who had been knocked down with an iron coupling pin, was soon satisfied, for the family had wealth.

  15. The prosecuting attorney having given his consent, there was no doubt in the minds of those interested as to the continuance of the case.

  16. Mohammad did not inaugurate his career by prosecuting war as a means of proselytism, and never did proselytized any one by the sheer strength of the sword.

  17. In regard to the question of the African campaign, the Guardian is immensely pleased with the way your assembly and the special committee you have appointed, have seized this project and are vigorously prosecuting it.

  18. From the Guardian:] Dear and valued co-workers, The Six Year Plan which the English believers have conceived and are now energetically prosecuting constitutes a landmark in the history of the Faith in the British Isles.

  19. Newton, who had no means of prosecuting further inquiry, was obliged to be satisfied with the intelligence that his mother was alive and well.

  20. Having obtained the stores which were required, Newton lost no time in prosecuting his voyage to England.

  21. Suddenly from the corner of the prosecution the low growl which had been gradually rising like a young storm, broke, and the prosecuting attorney arose and lifted his voice above all others: "I protest your Honor, against this witness.

  22. Furthermore, this Budget of 1889 shows the spirit in which the fanatics of 'moral unity' are prosecuting their war against all religions in France.

  23. In their way of prosecuting this industry, however, they show their fine natural instinct for avoiding labour.

  24. As yet there are three parties prosecuting Gabinius: first, L.

  25. Edmiston, which continued until the close of the year 1890, when Mr. Edmiston was elected prosecuting attorney.

  26. Mr. Gose votes with the democratic party and has served as deputy prosecuting attorney, while for four years he was a member of the Walla Walla board of education.

  27. He served for ten years as prosecuting attorney of Columbia county and for five years was city attorney of Dayton.

  28. In 1886 he was prosecuting attorney of Columbia county.

  29. In 1902 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Asotin county.

  30. Here for the first time in Hebrew literature we catch a glimpse of Satan, who is regarded not as hostile to God but as the prosecuting attorney of heaven.

  31. Its conception of Satan as the prosecuting attorney of heaven, and of Jehovah as a transcendental ruler surrounded by a hierarchy of angels, is closely akin to that which first appears in the second chapter of Zechariah.

  32. There are now nearly two thousand men employed in different parts of the valley clearing up the ruins and prosecuting diligent search for the undiscovered dead, and bodies are discovered with undiminished frequency.

  33. The latter was convinced that the relations between Perdita and Philip would not bear inspection, and that they were making Marion’s predicament a pretext for prosecuting their own intrigue.

  34. The merit of that discourse has been universally admitted among painters; but it contains some directions, respecting the proper mode of prosecuting their studies, to which every student of every art would do well to pay attention.

  35. Whilst these and other plots were exacting from the Protector a severe compensation for his high position, he was yet steadily prosecuting measures for the better administration of the national government.

  36. William was all this time--except for a few days when he was anxiously observing the French proceedings before Brussels--prosecuting the siege of Namur with a determined ardour which cost a terrible amount of human lives.

  37. The Commons were liberal in voting supplies; they granted at once two million pounds, and declared that they would support the king to the utmost of their ability in reducing Ireland to his authority, and in prosecuting the war with France.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prosecuting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.