prefer charges
Example Sentences
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I told Gen. Butler I would have to prefer charges against him if he neglected his duty in that way.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 might add that I understood General Potter was very angry, as he needed his wagons to bring commissary stores for his troops, and proposed to prefer charges against me for unwarrantably taking them.
From Civil War Experiences under Bayard, Gregg, Kilpatrick, Custer, Raulston, and Newberry, 1862, 1863, 1864 by Meyer, Henry C. (Henry Coddington)
Some ill-feeling in his regiment has led one of his officers to prefer charges against him.
From The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by Beatty, John
