A recent study attempts to separate them by looking at bribery prosecutions under America's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

最近的一项研究试图通过研究美国《反海外腐败法》（FCPA）下的贿赂指控来区分它们。

Will it lead to prosecutions?

将来会否掀起诉讼？

The number of prosecutions has soared.

控告的数目直线上升。

There are more than60,000 prosecutions a year for shoplifting.

每年有六万多人因在超市偷窃而被起诉。

And therefore we've only had three such prosecutions in the past.

因此我们以前只有三例这样的控告案件。

a brief factual description of significant investigations and prosecutions;

调查和起诉的重大案件的简要案情；

Any prosecutions would also need to be judged to be in the public interest.

所有检控亦会在公众关注下审理。

To date, the first group of prosecutions is set to commence on December 3, 2009.

迄今，第一批的起诉预计在2009年12月3日开始。

The spectacle of so many broken families virtually ended prosecutions for 50 years.

由于众多家庭在这一事件中破碎了，这反倒使起诉之声平息达50年之久。

Prosecutions are rare even when evidence strongly suggests premeditated killing.

即使有强有力的证据表明是（警察）有预谋的杀人，也罕有人检举他们。

But far from leading to the prosecutions of those involved, its findings have been buried.

但是还远未导致对那些有关人员的起诉，它的发现就已经被埋葬了。

Adding the remedy of court injunctions to the previous penalties of seizures and prosecutions.

对先前的扣押和起诉处罚，增加法院指令的救济。

More typically, prosecutions under the act have involved people who hack into computer systems.

使用这一法案进行的诉讼，较为典型的起诉对象是入侵他人电脑系统的黑客。

Given the parlous state of Congo's judiciary, raising the number of prosecutions may not help.

由于刚果司法正处于险境，增加起诉数量应该没什么用。

There have been some notable spam prosecutions in the US, and a handful have even received jail or prison time.

在美国发生过一些有关垃圾邮件的诉讼，相当一些人甚至被判入狱。

Nintendo adds that there have also been 20 successful prosecutions of people selling game copying devices in Germany.

任天堂还透露，他们已在德国成功的起诉了20家销售游戏拷贝设备的商家。

McKinnon's family and legal team had hoped the director of public prosecutions would authorise a trial in the UK.

麦金农的家人和律师团曾希望总检察长批准在英国进行审讯。

But there have been no arrests in connection with the latest shootings, and few prosecutions over the past 20 years.

但是并没有就近日的枪击事件采取任何逮捕行动，过去的20多年也鲜有诉讼。

The exception is Germany, where a cheap, efficient legal system has made it possible to launch some 100,000 prosecutions.

德国是一个例外，廉价高效的法律系统使之能发起10万控诉。

The exception is Germany, where a cheap, efficient legal system has made it possible to launch some 100, 000 prosecutions.

德国是一个例外，廉价高效的法律系统使之能发起10万控诉。

Since the election, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has welcomed ICC prosecutions of persons responsible for atrocities in Darfur.

选举之后，国务卿希拉里·克林顿一直欢迎ICC起诉应为达尔富尔地区的暴虐负责的人。

At first he said that not a single crime against white farmers would go unpunished, though no prosecutions have ever been brought.

最初他表示虽然还没有任何起诉，但并不代表针对白人农场地主的单一犯罪不会受到惩罚。

He argues that more prosecutions could spark civil war or, slightly less spuriously, that they might undermine hard-won efforts at reconciliation.

他争辩到更多的控诉会挑起内战，或者可能会破坏好不容易才取得的和解氛围，这稍微符合点逻辑。

A notable one is whether prosecutions should be brought against those soldiers whom the judge came close to accusing of unlawful killing and perjury.

其中一个值得注意的是是否应该起诉那些将被法官指控非法杀人和做伪证的士兵们。

A recent spate of prosecutions under the act of firms operating in China and other notoriously crooked places has stoked fear in the heart of many executives.

最近接二连三针对在华以及其他有名的行为不当地方公司行为的起诉激起了许多高管心里的恐慌。