(a.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English.
(n.) The accusative case.
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?
Accusatorial
Definition:
(a.) Accusatory.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, the voices of schizophrenic patients are predominantly disparaging, call approbrious names, or are accusatory.
(2) Perhaps one of the most obvious examples of the sexism Page has encountered is that pretty much as soon as she came to international attention in Juno, rumours started about her sexuality, simply because, to quote one well-known accusatory blogpost in 2008, "she certainly dresses like a, you know, tomboy and if you Google 'Ellen Page boyfriend' , not a whole lot comes up."
(3) Sisi pointed an accusatory finger at Italy in an unrelated case involving an Egyptian citizen and Italian resident named Adel Moad, who is alleged to have disappeared in Italy last year.
(4) However, the government’s constant attempts to paint honest people – like low-paid workers relying on tax credits and universal credit – as ‘skivers’ is creating a hostile and accusatory environment.
(5) It's a very troubling scene with such accusatory positioning.
(6) Longitudinal pharmacotherapeutic data from 58 schizophrenic patients suggest that the emergence of a dysphoric state, characterized by a combination of anxiety, depression, and accusatoriness, early in the course of neuroleptic treatment augurs poor therapeutic outcome and is associated with an unfavorable prognostic classification and a tendency for autonomic arousal to increase with treatment from a drug-free base line somewhat higher than normal.
(7) Stop pretending you are not doing what you are doing.” “Russia,” she went on in similarly accusatory mode, “signs agreements, then does everything within its power to undermine them.
(8) Even when his words grow angry and accusatory, his face remains impassive.
(9) The evidence and accusatory theory do not justify a verdict of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
(10) Successful management requires early suspicion and prompt recognition as well as establishment of non-accusatory relationship with the primary physician.
(11) There is no empathy at all in the system; it is all accusatory."
(12) Left to my own devices, I'd probably still be prodding laboriously at my old grey Nokia and answering it with my signature "charm" – similar to when people receive ransom calls from kidnappers in films, only more tense, suspicious and accusatory.
(13) Buckingham Palace put out a denial,” Ferguson told NBC’s Today, “and we stand by that denial.” “I won’t stand by – because I know what it feels like to have salacious lies made up about you – and not support him so publicly, because they are just shockingly accusatory allegations,” said Ferguson, who added: “The American people know my integrity.” She said that given Andrew’s qualities “as a great father, and a humongously good man, and all the works he does for Britain,” she would not “let him have his character defamed to this level”.
(14) Accusatory "you" statements were rated as more aversive and evoked stronger antagonistic response inclinations than assertive "I" statements.
(15) One third of the children were seen as "babies", with unnecessarily over-protective attitudes on the part of their parents, and one third as "scapegoats", with accusatory attitudes from their mother and father.
(16) "At some point I was asking something about that, being friends, but not in an accusatory way.
(17) He criticizes the way in which the document was compiled, since in his opinion the three psychiatric experts who consigned it interpreted in an accusatory manner the subjective data of their examination.
(18) The real goal of his catty, three-page response, he says, was to embarrass a bureaucratic agency with humor – he pointed out its redaction of vital words defining the proper usage of Section 701 in its accusatory letter, and how it led the FBI to call Wikipedia's use of its seal "problematic".
(19) Related images and accusatory comments about leaders and the system [of government] must be deleted without exception,” said the instructions, according to CDT .
(20) While these symptoms are not uncommon in non-adoptive clinic cases, the authors note an emphasis on the adoptive parents' disappointment and accusatory attitude to toward these children as well as high incidence of symptoms indicative of interpersonal difficulties and problems in developing solid parental attachments and self-control.