(v. t.) To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense
(v. t.) to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.
(v. t.) To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
(v. t.) To betray; to show. [L.]
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?
Arraign
Definition:
(v. t.) To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.
(v. t.) To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.
(n.) Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns.
(v. t.) To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here I am president of the nation, I was voted in by the whole nation, why should I then accept an arraignment, which is by a few people?
(2) If Mladic complies with the schedule, his arraignment on Friday could bring him into the same court building as his superior during the Bosnian war, Radovan Karadzic.
(3) Shahzad was to have appeared in court today on terrorism charges but the hearing was delayed after the authorities said he waived his right to an early arraignment.
(4) That move – a prelude to an investigation of an investigation on the fringes of the commissions – was the latest meandering for a military trial that has yet to get under way two years since the defendants were arraigned.
(5) Chuck D's sideman in Public Enemy was arrested for traffic violations, unlicensed operation of a vehicle and unlawful possession of marijuana, but was released with orders to appear for arraignment.
(6) From April 1969 to March 1971, 535 juvenile offenders were arraigned before a juvenile court in Benin City, Nigeria.
(7) "He lied to me and took my son to his death," she said outside the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague, where Mladic was arraigned on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
(8) I was reminded of another recent drama, Vivienne Franzmann's The Witness , which arraigned its photographer hero for achieving fame at the expense of other people's misery.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dominique Strauss-Kahn appears in Manhattan criminal court for his arraignment in May 2011.
(10) The suspects, arraigned at a four-hour closed hearing on Monday, were accused of “having helped the perpetrator in connection with the shooting attacks”, Copenhagen police said.
(11) The Russian corruption whistleblower and opposition leader, who will be formally arraigned this Wednesday for allegedly embezzling half a million dollars from a state-owned timber company in 2009, is in a peculiar bind.
(12) Tsochadzopoulos, the most senior official yet to be arraigned in connection with corruption, stands accused of funnelling the cash, initially deposited in a Swiss bank account, via offshore companies to buy two properties in Athens, including a luxury home on the capital's most expensive boulevard.
(13) At a 24 February arraignment, Ammon plans to plead not guilty, the attorney added.
(14) A third military judge, Colonel James Pohl, defied Obama's order by scheduling an arraignment for Nashiri, saying that a delay would not be "in the interest of justice".
(15) "People's courts" will be convened to arraign local commanders.
(16) Once arraigned in juvenile court on the C & P, the average case took almost 1.5 years to reach a disposition.
(17) An earlier version referred to forces arraigned, rather than ranged, against Gordon Brown.
(18) His hands in cuffs, Castro bowed his head and remained silent during his arraignment at Cleveland municipal court.
(19) Now that the grand jury has also found probable cause to charge the aforementioned officers based upon the evidence these officers who are presumed innocent until proven guilty, are now scheduled to be arraigned on July 2,” Mosby said.
(20) Majors is scheduled for arraignment in district court on Wednesday.