prefer charges against

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

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

I was ordered to prefer charges against Colonel Townsend, "for disobedience of orders."

From Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Keifer, Joseph Warren

I will prefer charges against him in the morning.”

From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by Winter, William West

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