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
"Therefore, in the face of fighting against orders, and sustaining such losses to his own immediate command, I felt it my duty, sir, to prefer charges against Ensign Darrin."
From Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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 John Beatty
V. To prefer charges against officers for misconduct in office; which is called impeachment.
From Civil Government for Common Schools by Henry C. Northam
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 Joseph Warren Keifer
