arraign
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Speaking to local media, Youngblood said he had no one who could arraign the supervisor within a limited time frame, but Kern County prosecutors dispute that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
O’Connor said federal law and rules of criminal procedure “require this Court to publicly arraign Boeing and permit the crime victims’ representatives to be heard at or in advance of the proceeding.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023
The prosecutor noted the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic could put a snag in efforts to arraign Schulte on the new charges and start his retrial as soon as possible, however.
From Washington Times ● May 30, 2020
Hägglund wants to arraign capitalism for a similar asceticism.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019
He returned to England to arraign the despot Ferdinand at the bar of public opinion.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
It loosely and libelously arraigns Canada Packers Ltd.,
From Time Magazine Archive
Amid echoes of the ominous thunderclap of the Faubus election victory in Arkansas, Author Dabbs speaks in a deceptively small voice, but arraigns himself no less harshly than his neighbors.
From Time Magazine Archive
Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scepticism wins a cheap victory when it arraigns faith as a culprit caught in the very act of stealing the forbidden fruit of paradise.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews by Thomas Charles Edwards
Thoreau's critics justly aver that he severely arraigns his countrymen because they are not all Thoreaus—that they do not desert their farms and desks and shops and take to the woods.
From The Last Harvest by John Burroughs
He is due to be arraigned at a county court on Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
He hadn’t been arraigned by Friday evening, a spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
He is scheduled to be arraigned June 30, records show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Juin was arraigned late Thursday and released on a $2 million bond.
From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026
They arraigned him before a justice, but by that time your grandfather and Mr Coldfield had got there.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
“It’s been arraigning — I mean, raining,” Mr. Conway tweeted.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
Dr Mehmood says there aren't enough police available to "handle all these cases efficiently and judiciously, without arraigning innocent people to complete paperwork and save their jobs".
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2020
It is hard to resist the conclusion that Garner, in full maternal mode, is arraigning him for not being more of a man.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016
Another positive development involves arraigning and prosecuting poachers in courts in the main cities, which are considered less susceptible to corruption than their local counterparts.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 10, 2015
I am not defending the firecracker, but arraigning the failure of the law to carry its point and maintain its dignity.
From The Children of the Poor by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
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