(n.) The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.
(n.) That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge.
Example Sentences:
(1) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
(2) Some international coverage of the outbreak was accused of misinforming western readers.
(3) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(4) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
(5) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
(6) Defence lawyers suggested this week that Anwar's accuser was a "compulsive and consummate liar" who may have been put up to it.
(7) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
(8) She has been accused of being responsible for rape, sexual slavery, and prostitution itself.
(9) We repeat our call for them to do so at the earliest opportunity, and to share those findings so that we can take any appropriate actions.” In the BBC programme the 29-year-old Rupp, who won 10,000m silver at the London 2012 Olympics behind Farah, was accused of having taken testosterone and being a regular user of the asthma drug prednisone, which is banned in competition.
(10) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
(11) Certainly not ones with young children accused of non-violent crimes.
(12) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
(13) I never accuse a student of plagiarizing unless I have proof, almost always in the form of sources easily found by Googling a few choice phrases.
(14) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
(15) He said he was appalled by the player's accusations and plans to meet with Martin on Wednesday at an undisclosed location.
(16) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
(17) Fred Goodwin was an accountant and no one ever accused the former chief executive of RBS of consuming mind-alterating substances – unless you count over-inhaling his own ego.
(18) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
(19) The Iranians have accused the Israelis and the US of designing and deploying Stuxnet, which set some of their centrifuges spinning out of control.
(20) Does parliamentary privilege really mean that the four accused should not face trial?
Unjust
Definition:
(a.) Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled by justice; false; dishonest; as, an unjust man or judge.
(a.) Contrary to justice and right; prompted by a spirit of injustice; wrongful; as, an unjust sentence; an unjust demand; an unjust accusation.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I did so in protest at using unethical ways to make unjust allegations, therefore I hereby withdraw my complaint against this artist."
(2) Ukraine will do everything it can to free these unjustly accused people,” said Vitaly Moskalenko, Ukraine’s consul general in Rostov-on-Don, who was present at the Sentsov hearing.
(3) This is not just socially unjust, it is also bad for our economy.
(4) reveals, it is a result of the unjust politics that shape our economy, including the pursuit of growth at any cost and the fact that women’s voices continue to be silenced and ignored.
(5) There is a huge disconnect between the Wonga management's view of these services and the view from beyond its headquarters, where campaigners against the rapidly growing payday loan industry describe them as " immoral and unjust " and " legal loan sharks ".
(6) Every day looked after children and care leavers face unfair and unjust discrimination.
(7) Agnes Poirier went to meet Claude Lanzmann, the 88-year-old director of Holocaust documentary Shoah, who has a new film, Last of the Unjust , which is screening out of competition.
(8) We now need to weigh up both urban and suburban qualities, and take proper account of complaints from critical urbanists about socially unjust, sanitised, privatised, uni-cultural and anti-social developments.
(9) This is one of the forms of "Kümmel-Verneuil syndrome, a clinical entity which has been unjustly neglected for 30 years.
(10) I tend to differ: it is perverse, and it is unjust.
(11) "People feel the murder of Mark was very unjust," he said.
(12) UK Uncut's previous sit-ins and occupations in the branches of tax dodgers have proved very effective in highlighting the unjust practices of big business."
(13) "For centuries unjust laws banned marriage between blacks and whites or Indians and Europeans.
(14) Translated, this means demanding just taxation policies from America to divert attention from your wholesale restructure of the Australian economy to protect unjust taxation policies at home.
(15) It appears that I am now being unjustly victimized again.
(16) The zero-hours contracts – of which there are now 1.4 million in the active workforce – remain a flashpoint, even if they are by no means the most unjust requirement made by the Department for Work and Pensions (they are not as bad as mandatory work activity, for instance).
(17) A few months after Timothy Jackson was put away for life, a Louisiana appeals court reviewed the case and found it “excessive”, “inappropriate” and “a prime example of an unjust result”.
(18) The Guardian view on the criminal courts charge: unjust, ineffective and mean-spirited | Editorial Read more Gove indicated his distaste for the charge, saying it was a “cause for concern”.
(19) The spur to the public debate on the death penalty stemmed from a trilogy of miscarriages of justice In 1950, Timothy Evans was unjustly hanged on the evidence of a neighbour, John Christie, who was subsequently convicted of murder, in a house they shared in west London.
(20) They chanted, “Justice for Tamir!” “We will not accept any excuse why this young man was shot down unjustly,” said Art McKoy, a Cleveland community activist at the demonstration.