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
I told Gen. Butler I would have to prefer charges against him if he neglected his duty in that way.
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
It took somewhat more time than that for Malone to convince the sergeant that he didn't have time to go down to the station to prefer charges.
From Occasion for Disaster by Garrett, Randall
The captain of the company in which P.D. was placed told him he did not believe he was ugly about it, and that he could only put him under arrest and prefer charges against him.
From The Record of a Quaker Conscience, Cyrus Pringle's Diary With an Introduction by Rufus M. Jones by Jones, Rufus Matthew
