prefer charges

Example Sentences

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The news came from the sunny Adri atic island of Brioni, 340 miles from Belgrade, where the 75-year-old Tito called together a 155-man plenum of the Yugoslav Central Committee to name names and prefer charges.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week there was distinct danger that on this issue Jugoslavia might prefer charges before the League.

From Time Magazine Archive

I told Gen. Butler I would have to prefer charges against him if he neglected his duty in that way.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is as unwise to flatter our ancestors by ascribing to them motives different from those which they themselves professed as it is unjust to prefer charges against them to which they are not obnoxious.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter

Since then he has gone part-way back to the land of romance, and if he will stay there I shall not prefer charges against him.

From The Crow's Nest by Day, Clarence