prefer charges
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
He revealed the fact that the members of the court had already bound themselves in honor to prefer charges against General Arnold in order that the powerful Commonwealth of Pennsylvania might be placated.
From The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution by Barrett, James Francis
