During the trial, the prosecution asserted that the children were killed as part of a satanic ritual.

During the trial the prosecution was unable to present any witnesses to the alleged abuse.

During the last 15 years this method has been used several times: to confirm a law renouncing prosecution of members of the military who violated human rights during the military regime ( 1973 – 1985 ); to stop privatization of public utilities companies ; to defend pensioners ' incomes ; and to protect water resources.

During the last quarter of the century, the Inquisition reinforced its prosecution of the Jews, locally named xuetes.

During Carpenter's 1994 trial, defense attorneys attacked the prosecution case as circumstantial and inconclusive.

During the trial, all six witnesses of the prosecution were rebuffed, none of them telling the same story-four of them had repeatedly changed their testimonies during the trial, while the remaining two had presented testimonies that contradicted all known forensic evidence, suggesting that they had very little involvement with the case.

During what was at the time the costliest and longest trial in American history, totaling more than half a million dollars, ($ 9, 000, 000 in 2008 dollars ) the prosecution presented 46 witnesses, including two of Toguri's former supervisors at Radio Tokyo, and soldiers who testified they could not distinguish between what they had heard on radio broadcasts and what they had heard by way of rumor.

During Hovind's trial, the prosecution said the ministry does not have the proper licensing nor is it registered as a nonprofit, which resulted in legal troubles mentioned below.

[...] While we congratulate the CNMI for its recent successful prosecution of a case in which foreign women were pressured into prostitution, human trafficking remains far more prevalent in the CNMI than it is in the rest of the U. S. During the twelve-month period ending on April 30, 2007, 36 female victims of human trafficking were admitted to or otherwise served by Guma ' Esperansa, a women ’ s shelter operated by a Catholic nonprofit organization.

During his 1919 trial for allegedly obstructing American military recruitment during World War I, at which he testified in his own defense, the prosecution asked Scott Nearing whether he was a " pacifist socialist.

During the Parliamentary recess of the summer of 1797 he was senior counsel for the Crown in the prosecution of John Binns for sedition.

During the following four days of negotiations, authorities agreed to 28 of the prisoners ' demands, but would not agree to demands for complete amnesty from criminal prosecution for the prison takeover or for the removal of Attica's superintendent.

During the prosecution Giolitti abused his position as premier to abstract documents bearing on the case.

During prosecution testimony, Victoria Price stated that she and Ruby Bates witnessed the fight, that one of the black boys had a gun, and that they all raped her at knifepoint.

During closing, the prosecution thundered " If you don't give these men death sentences, the electric chair might as well be abolished.

During the second trial's prosecution testimony, Victoria Price stuck with her story mostly, stating flatly that Patterson raped her.

During the two-month trial, the prosecution presented a " mountain of circumstantial evidence ", calling 151 witnesses.

During 1960s, the mini sari known as ' hipster ' sari created a wrinkle in Sri Lankan fashion, since it was worn below the navel and barely above the line of prosecution for indecent exposure.

During this period he enjoyed a very large practice at the bar, being instructed in many causes célèbres including the Swynfen will case and Cardinal Newman's criminal prosecution for his libel of Giacinto Achilli.

During sentencing, the prosecution introduced evidence of Rowseys extensive criminal record, while the defense presented evidence of a difficult childhood.

During the trial, the defense routinely antagonized the judge and prosecution, and five of the defendants were sent to jail for contempt of court for disrupting the trial.

During the retrial, it was noted that, while the police did follow procedure collecting evidence, lapses occurred in the prosecution.

During this time, he led the prosecution of the Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.

During the transition of power from Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynasty in China, many anti-Qing elements fled prosecution and came to Vietnam.

During his life in Russia, Dimitry opposed both the Old Believers ' and Peter the Great's ecclesiastical policies, gradually drifting towards the party of Eudoxia Lopukhina and Tsarevich Alexis.

During the course of the season, serious injuries suffered by both Roenick ( broken jaw ) and Primeau ( concussion ) in February forced the Flyers to trade for Chicago's Alexei Zhamnov, who filled in well and kept the Flyers afloat.

During this period, Soviet leaders such as Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin embraced the notion of détente.

During a confrontation with his granddaughter's lover Alexei, the Count, in his delirium, stabs the young anarchist to death.

During the Chess World Cup 2007, which served as a qualification tournament for the World Chess Championship 2009, Karjakin reached the semi-finals, in which he lost to Alexei Shirov.

During the bombing raid Premier Alexei Kosygin headed a Soviet delegation to North Vietnam.

During the reign of Czar Alexei Romanov, the towers were built up with decorative spires and the walls were restored.

During 1984 Warman also found himself in the music video for Alexei Sayle's "' Ullo John!

During the years of his foreign service, Nikolay Petrovich amassed a huge collection of historical documents, rare coins, maps, manuscripts, and incunabula which formed a nucleus of the Rumyantsev Museum in Moscow ( subsequently transformed into the State Russian Library ).

During the Napoleonic wars, Zadunaisky's son Nikolay Petrovich ( 1754 – 1826 ) held the highest offices of state, including those of Minister of Commerce ( 1802 – 11 ), President of the State Council ( 1810 – 12 ), Foreign Minister ( 1808 – 12 ), and Chancellor of the Russian Empire.

During January – February 2007, Armenia ’ s trade with Russia and other former Soviet republics was $ 205. 6 million ( double the amount from the same period the previous year ), making them the country ’ s number one trading partner.

During the first 11 months of 2006, the volume of Armenia ’ s trade with Russia was $ 376. 8 million or 13. 2 percent of the total commercial exchange.

During the Tsarist times, the Ainu living in Russia were forbidden from identifying themselves as such, since the Imperial Japanese officials had claimed that all the regions inhabited by the Ainu in the past or present, are a part of Japan.

During the 2010 Census of Russia, the authorities rejected the claim from a group of mostly mixed race Ainu living in Kamchatka that they are not extinct.

During the summer of 1959, Pasternak began writing The Blind Beauty, a trilogy of stage plays set before and after Alexander II's abolition of serfdom in Russia.

During his trip in Russia, Chiang met Leon Trotsky and other Soviet leaders, but quickly came to the conclusion that the Russian model of government was not suitable for China.

During the Middle Ages, there were various systems involving elections or assemblies, although often only involving a small amount of the population, the election of Gopala in Bengal region of Indian Subcontinent, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 10 % of population ), the Althing in Iceland, the Løgting in the Faeroe Islands, certain medieval Italian city-states such as Venice, the tuatha system in early medieval Ireland, the Veche in Novgorod and Pskov Republics of medieval Russia, Scandinavian Things, The States in Tirol and Switzerland and the autonomous merchant city of Sakai in the 16th century in Japan.

During the Napoleonic Wars, Russia — supported by Great Britain in the Dardanelles Operation — blockaded the straits in 1807.

During the War of the Polish Succession in 1734, Elbląg and Danzig ( Gdańsk ) were placed under military occupation by Russia and Saxony.

During 1900 it was adopted by Germany, by Russia in 1904, the British West Indies in 1905, Spain in 1906, Belgium in 1909, Argentina in 1912, and Romania in 1913.

During World War I the use of flashbacks occurred in films from all the major European film-making countries as well, from Italy ( Tigre reale ) to Denmark ( Evangeliemandens Liv ) to Russia ( Grezy and Posle smerti ), where it arrived in 1915.

During its 47 years of existence, the German Empire operated as an industrial, technological and scientific giant, receiving more Nobel Prizes in science than Britain, France, Russia and the United States combined.

During the prehistoric eras the vast steppes of Southern Russia were home to tribes of nomadic pastoralists.

During the reign of Daniel of Russia | Daniel, Moscow was little more than a small timber fort lost in the forests of Central Russia.

During this period Russia expanded its empire into Central Asia, which was rich in raw materials, conquering the khanates of Kokand, Bokhara and Khiva, as well as the Trans-Caspian region.

During many years of Livonian War ( 1558 – 1582 ), however, they suffered a decisive defeat by troops of Muscovite Russia in the Battle of Ergeme in 1560 and continued living under great threat.

During the 1920s and the 1930s, Stalin fought and defeated the political influence of Leon Trotsky and of the Trotskyists in Russia, by means of slander, anti-Semitism, programmed censorship, expulsions, exile ( internal and external ), and imprisonment.

During the 2009 Malagasy political crisis, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Russia is " concerned by the increased frequency of attempts on the African continent to resort to non-constitutional methods of solving internal political problems.

During the Viking age their expeditions, frequently combined raiding and trading, penetrated most of the old Frankish empire, the British Isles, The Baltic, Russia and both Muslim and Christian Iberia.

During her upbringing, Dagmar, together with her sister Alexandra, was given swimming lessons by the Swedish pioneer of swimming for women, Nancy Edberg ; she would later welcome Edberg to Russia, where she came on royal scholarship to hold swimming lessons for women.

During the first russification period, she tried to have her son halt the constraining of the grand principality's autonomy and to recall the unpopular Governor-General Bobrikov from Finland to some other position in Russia itself.

During the 19th century, parallel operatic traditions emerged in central and eastern Europe, particularly in Russia and Bohemia.

During the second half of the 19th century, the armies of a number of nations besides Russia ( including Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Portugal, Norway, and Sweden ) adopted the Pickelhaube or something very similar.

During World War II, independent research groups in the United States, Russia, and Japan discovered a new class of synthetic materials, called ferroelectrics, which exhibited piezoelectric constants many times higher than natural materials.