How To Use Accuse In A Sentence

He had accused three opposition members of corrupt practices.
United Brands produced bananas, and was accused of a variety of abusive practices which were said to infringe Article 86.
They are accused of hatching a decade-long plot to keep wholesale oil prices artificially high. The Sun
Fear that someone will accuse them of being a right wing ultra-orthograph fanatic? The Volokh Conspiracy » What Kind of People Affiliate with Human Rights Watch’s Middle East Division?
The footman accuses the cook, she accuses the needlewoman, and the latter accuses the other two.

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Defence lawyers routinely accuse victims who failed to make 'vigorous enough' protests, as in fact having consented.
He then accused the powers that be of failing to appreciate younger people's culture.
The consecutive statements, allegations, and counterallegations made in turn by plaintiff and defendant, or prosecutor and accused, in a legal proceeding.
She was accused of failing to keep her promise to work with the aviation industry to improve the choice of destinations.
In her dying depositions she accused Osio of having pushed her in; and there seems little doubt that he did so; for while she was struggling in the water, he disengaged his harquebuss from his mantle and struck her several blows upon the head and hands. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
The manciple accuses the cook of being drunk, and the cook falls off his horse after giving the Manciple a dirty look.
The commission may come up with a new plan for overseeing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which is accused of botching its end of the case. Peace, order and good government, eh?: December 2004 Archives
During a secret speech in February 1956 (which was almost immediately leaked to the Western media) he condemned the policies of the hitherto much admired Stalin and accused him of hideous crimes.
Washington accused Dinwiddie of claiming that he had exceeded his authority by allowing batmen and transport for the officers of the Virginia Regiment. George Washington’s First War
Speaking to camera, the masked man accused the hostages of being spies for the British government and claimed that they had been abandoned. Times, Sunday Times
The DNA samples found on her body did not match up with a sample taken from the accused.
He was accused of submitting claims for ‘inappropriate’ items, including metal fruit baskets, plastic holders for bathroom utensils, and even jars of piccalilli.
The opposition coalition has accused the socialists of trying to stall the process. Times, Sunday Times
The attorney for one of the accused denounced what he calls cowardly and anonymous leakers at the Pentagon. CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2006
A day later, the state of Georgia executed Troy Davis, a black man accused of killing a white police officer more than 20 years ago, despite what GOP Rep. Bob Barr called the conviction's reliance on "the skimpiest of evidence," and, in the words of former FBI director William Sessions, "pervasive, persistent doubts" about Davis' guilt. Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup
The following day, North accused his bosses of appalling, dishonest and unethical behaviour.
I was accused of being stiff, spoiled, pompous, upper crusted, bitter, angry, negative, imbecilic, and even crazy.
He accused her of babying him up, and treating him too nicely.
The brothers, both of no fixed address, are accused of the murders of Gary Pettitt and Jean Larkin.
They also say that the offences he is accused of are not crimes in England. Times, Sunday Times
The accused is linked to the bombing that took place in Abuja," said Hein Louw, the magistrate overseeing the court proceeding. Nigerian militant leader charged over car bombs on independence day
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Now he's in real trouble. He's accused of plagiarism.
Some critics will accuse Duffy of acting as apologist for a campaign of violent repression, but this would scarcely be fair: “confronted by the sanctified savageries of the Tudor age, it would be a hard heart that withheld pity from the victims or felt no indignation against the perpetrators”. A Not so Bloody Mary ?
Successive governments are accused of prioritising the motorist by cutting vehicle taxes for fuel-efficient models and spending billions on road building. Times, Sunday Times
He was accused of causing death by reckless driving .
While some have accused the product of being vaporware, it certainly is getting plenty of attention.
He asked me to put myself in his own situation, not married and being accused of all these things.
That being the case, it is inconceivable to me that an accused cannot raise, by way of prerogative writ, the issue of the statutory validity of service before a court of competent jurisdiction.
A TEN-year-old schoolgirl yesterday told a hushed court how she had seen the man accused of murdering and dismembering another man beat her mother.
He won't be able to accuse me of having sold it on the black market and skived off with the proceeds.
The prosecution must prove beyond reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty of the crime.
Now seeing in the last section, those we call mathematics are absolved of the crime of breeding controversy; and they that pretend not to learning cannot be accused; the fault lieth altogether in the dogmatics, that is to say, those that are imperfectly learned, and with passion press to have their opinions pass everywhere for truth, without any evident demonstration either from experience, or from places of Scripture of uncontroverted interpretation. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
These accused have also admitted in their confession that top officials of the food and civil supplies department including the minister were involved in the racket.
Certainly the idea is not that all accused should be homeless and jobless while awaiting trial isit? The Volokh Conspiracy » What Should Landlords Do If a Tenant Is Accused of a Violent Crime?
The company has been accused of mis-selling products to thousands of elderly investors.
She has been accused of trying to get her former brother-in-law dismissed from the police force to settle a personal score. Times, Sunday Times
The accused country has to prove its innocence, the accuser has to prove nothing.
The centerpiece of that strategy is the use of minor infractions as pretexts to lock up suspects on whom the government lacks sufficient evidence to accuse them of more serious crimes.
Spartans accused Athenians of effeminateness
He also denied charges of manhandling the accused and not informing the British High Commission at New Delhi regarding their arrest.
A youth - accused of rape, housebreaking and theft - burst into tears yesterday when his mother asked the court to keep him in jail for his own safety.
But the police have also been accused of badly botching the investigation.
Martin accuses the English translators of interpreting such words in their "etymological" sense, and consulting profane writers, Homer, Early Theories of Translation
Is it only a war zone for constitutional suspension clause purposes if the detainee is accused of being involved with the localized conflict (this would follow with Eisentrager too)? The Volokh Conspiracy » No Habeas Jurisdiction Over Bagram Air Force Base
The move by the farmers may sour relations with the government, which has in the past accused white farmers of mistreating their black workers.
The courts do remand a significant minority of accused people in prison to await trial. The Prisons We Deserve
The party chairman accused the opposition of dirty tricks in their election campaign.
Mrs Forbes accused the council of "grievously" letting down local residents. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
For a player regularly accused of taking the circuitous route rather too often on the pitch, he is compulsively candid off it. Times, Sunday Times
No one likes receiving emotional, intemperate outbursts, even from people who think they have been wrongly accused.
He is accused of involvement in the deaths and disappearance of up to 10,000 people during the war in Kosovo.
It is especially noteworthy that The New York Times, itself culpable of, or accessory to whatever alleged crimes Mr. Assange may be accused of, has kept its lips discretely, if unheroically sealed. Michael Brenner: Obama's War on WikiLeaks -- and Us
The only time Palin can be accused of having spunk is when it comes to looking after her own interest in making money. Think Progress » Palin: With his ‘chalkboard technique,’ Glenn Beck is ‘changing our country.’
It would be unfair to accuse them of selling snake oil. Times, Sunday Times
He has accused opposition parties of hatching a plot to assassinate the Pope.
So I suppose it's no surprise that a May 7 press release from the the World Congress of Families (WCF), an extremely conservative group that "seeks to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the 'seedbed' of civil society," accused CCF of wanting to '' de-institutionalize marriage "and of celebrating the fact" that an increasing number of women are choosing not to marry and have children. Stephanie Coontz: Unconventional Wisdom on Families
All were accused of drugs and arms trafficking, money laundering, extortion and conspiracy to murder. Times, Sunday Times
The new accuser can be produced as a prosecution witness in the current case if initial assessment finds substance in the claims.
Golden State's Thompson stoked the tensions before the series when he accused the Clippers' player of flopping.
Donaldson is accused of luring his wife into the disused house on the caravan site at Crianlarich, where he had stored a box of large fireworks.
She was accused of being intimate with several men.
It may be said that there is an evidentiary onus on an accused person in raising a defence of alibi.
Both have in the past been accused of courting publicity. Times, Sunday Times
Nato was accused of trying to throw a cordon sanitaire around Russia.
And he does so on the sole basis of the appearance of these images and maledictions in the depictions of Simone's death elicited by torture from the accused.
But some experts were quick to accuse the chancellor of shameless electioneering.
She accused the official of corruption.
The former lover of a pensioner accused of murdering his wife and children 27 years ago said she did not give police vital information because she couldn't believe he would harm anyone.
The President has accused two cabinet ministers of working secretly to undermine his position/him.
Webster's book is released as in Rochdale, an apparently innocent man is murdered after being accused of being a paedophile. The NSPCC Needs To Be Stopped. Full Stop
We cannot call a man's work superficial when it is the creation of a world; a man cannot be accused of dealing superficially with the world which he himself has created; the superficies is the world. Ben Jonson
The union accused employers of trying to make last-minute changes to the deal and warned that its 55,000 members could be balloted again for a fresh bout of industrial action.
a Moroccan guestworker in Canada was accused of aiding terrorists
Lunete mounts the palfrey which is brought without delay, and, as they ride, she tells her how she had been accused and charged with treason, and how the pyre was already kindled upon which she was to be laid, and how he had come to help her in just the moment of her need. Four Arthurian Romances
She accused the government of minimizing the suffering of thousands of people.
In the morning, he sharply criticized Jones for maverick marketing policies and accused him of trying to tear down the league.
You accused him of mishandling your trust fund.
I repeatedly said also that I did not accuse the Government of fabrication, but of exaggeration.
Someone came up and accused my gran of being uncaring.
Specks of paint found at the scene were found to match the accused's car.
He was accused of treachery and was summoned to a closed meeting with the leaders of his group.
The case involved temporary cabin maker Portakabin, which accused its competitor Primakabin of infringing its rights as trademark owner of the Portakabin name by using it as an ad keyword. EU Court Rules on Ad Keywords
A friend of the victim was subpoenaed as a witness by lawyers representing the accused.
Gatz - I didn't think to save my entry before submitting it ... but it was to do with the thrill of discovering new music (and Tinariwen set me off on a monumental world music quest so felt legitimate to say something so seemingly cliched) then being accused of 'ululation' by the wife when caught singing along to it ... Word Magazine - Comments
He has been accused of skimming the cream off the economy.
The company has turned over to plaintiffs' lawyers about 30 complaints in which customers accuse New Hanover of racism.
He accused the government of ratting on its promises to the disabled.
The ex-director of public prosecutions has accused Tony Blair of "sycophancy" towards President Bush. WN.com - Articles related to Blair 'happy to be out of race for Europe job'
No one can accuse him of having cast these kids for their cuteness of speech or appearance.
The Minister accused of misleading parliament was unavailable for comment last night.
They have accused the countries of this region of "harbouring" the ANC ... INTERVIEW TO MAPUTO RADIO, NOVEMBER 3, 1986 (1)
A friend of the victim was subpoenaed as a witness by lawyers representing the accused.
He said that he had bought it for 20 euros to use as a doorstop or ornament, but the authorities said it was marble and accused him of smuggling antiquities.
Cardinal, accused him of prevarication and weakness, and threw himself at her Majesty's feet, conjuring her in the name of the King her son, not to authorise, by an example which he called fatal, the insolence of a subject who was for wresting favours from his sovereign, sword in hand. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
His jealous competitors frequently accuse he of be too acquisitive or of taking apart theirs trade.
Opposition leaders accused the government of orchestrating the 2003 coup as a pretext for purging the military and cracking down on political opponents.
Well, the new realism is that juries cannot be trusted in respect of any matter that might be adverse to the accused.
We get accused of being agents of foreign powers,' she said. Times, Sunday Times
If the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the one accused, because he killed his neighbor unintentionally and without malice aforethought.
However, politicians are still petrified of being accused of being too soft on drugs.
I mean, hell, if I was accused of molesting children, had a face falling apart, a career in shambles, and had become a mockery of my former self, I'd be on drugs too. Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09
He is accused of complicity with the leader of the coup, former Colonel Gregorio Honasan.
But when Max is accused of murder, Josh considers his own role in Max's path of life. January 2009
It has been accused of sitting on a list of 102 names of firms that may have hired rogue investigators. Times, Sunday Times
He told the accused that he was going to arrest them. Regan said. "Oh, are you?" and called out. "Pass me an 'Aristotle.'"
Political pundits are often accused, usually rightly, of overstating the significance of by-election results.
The authority had also accused him of encouraging homosexuality in his religious education lessons.
She was accused of disclosing confidential material to a competitor.
Will we be accused of living in Utopia by asking if there is anything sacrosanct and inviolable anymore?
The accused faces an agonising wait while the jury considers its verdict.
The model has accused the boxer's parents of verbal and physical abuse. The Sun
I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of.
Richter is accused of committing treason against the state.
The foreign affairs committee also accused the foreign office of hindering its investigation into the government report, whose findings were published last December. Times, Sunday Times
No one ever accused us of being over-rehearsed," Stephen Stills says at one point, shortly before he's shown tripping over a footlight on the stage and playing flat on his back while he rolls from side to side trying to get himself back up. Evan Handler: Find the Cost of Freedom (of Speech)
She accused the Congress government of treating the whole Sikh community as extremists, and authorising untold atrocities.
A witness gave testimony that the accused was drunk.
Phelps was accused of failing to “demean himself” (= behave) properly, but he has certainly succeeded, then and since then, in demeaning (= debasing) himself. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Disbarment of Fred Phelps
Afghanistan has long pressed the U.S. to tackle what it calls the bases of terrorism in Pakistan, and Obama's reported pledge will likely please Karzai, who has accused Pakistan's intelligence service of supporting the Taliban in plotting bombings and other attacks in Afghanistan - claims that Pakistan, a key U.S. ally in its war on terror, flatly denies. Top Stories - Google News
Campaigners accuse the government of encouraging the practice while gagging its critics.
The prosecutor accused the couple of playing the badger game.
The day that he accused a reigning King of murder was the day he signed his own death warrant, and he knew it. HERE BE DRAGONS
Both sides have been accused of committing atrocities in a conflict that also displaced almost five million people. Times, Sunday Times
If these compurgators all agreed in a declaration in favour of the accused, this was held to he a complete acquittal.
Paris is the only capital to accuse us of money-laundering.
He is currently on trial accused of serious drugs charges.
That was a fine, half-pie, sort of ACT speech from that member, but I take issue with the Minister of Conservation, who accused ACT of subterfuge.
The move will be welcomed by those who accuse the government of doing too little to warn people about the dangers of air pollution. Times, Sunday Times
That being so, the finding by the trial judge that the accused was guilty of the offence was not supported by admissible evidence.
Accused – while I agree with the death penalty in extreme circumstances, how many people have we seen not only come off of death row, but leave prison, exonerated from a conviction. Another superdelegate for Obama
Myers accused the government of deliberately massaging the unemployment figures .
The man was accused of being a spy.
During the trial, the prosecution was accused of withholding crucial evidence from the defence.
Clinton has come under fire from Republicans in Congress who accuse him of doing too little to fight drugs.
Whether or not he testified on the issue of guilt or innocence or as to matters in extenuation or mitigation, the accused may make an unsworn statement to the court in mitigation or extenuation of the offenses of which he stands convicted, but the right to make such an unsworn statement does not permit the filing of the affidavit of the accused. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214
Conflict has simplistically been blamed on stock-thieves, but police have also been accused of taking sies, and Mhlaba has alleged organised crime and politics also fueled the conflict. ANC Daily News Briefing
I would've been scared of being accused of being unromantic or cheap.
Colleagues were called after the pair were accused of shoplifting bottles of plonk. The Sun
The LA Times is reporting that former Fry's executive and accused embezzler, Omar Siddiqui, once gambled away $8 million in a single day. The Consumerist: February 2009 Archives
I had accused Lils of borrowing it and never returning it, but she, of course, had claimed never to have touched it.
They were accused of materialism, wanting designer clothes instead of babies.
Lawyers for the accused refuted the charges. Times, Sunday Times
He is accused of performing hundreds of 'unnecessary, inappropriate or unregulated' operations. Times, Sunday Times
He has also been accused of being a shameless self-publicist, boring, inarticulate and lucky.
I say it and I say it emphatically, without wishing for one moment to defeat the ends of justice, accused was not accessory before the act and prosecutrix has not been tampered with. Ulysses
All of this activity allegedly took place in the presence of both complainants and the accused.
A cook has been charged with battering his wife to death during an argument in which he accused her of infidelity.
He is also accused of conspiring to cause loss of life. The Sun
The Polish Hockey Association secretary also came into the field and accused the Pakistanis of unsporting behaviour.
Neurologists are often accused of being interested in only rare incurable diseases.
The family accused the police of being too quick to dismiss the deaths of Errol and Jason McGowan as suicide.
He would neither confirm nor deny that Smith was the officer accused by Kennedy.Smith has not been a prominent officer.
One of the basic rights has been the right to face one's accuser.
The government has accused the media of bias.
His Eminence accused Eugène of being a frondeur; M. de Canaples, whose politics had grown sadly rusted in the country, asked me the meaning of the word. The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes
The crime is to disclose an official secret, probably even if extracted from the accused at the point of a pistol.
As the election in 2003 approached, Mr. Kagame's main rival was accused of "divisionism," or advocating one ethnicity over another. Land That Outlawed Hate On Edge as Key Vote Nears
Federal soldiers have been accused of perpetrating atrocities against innocent people.
Part of the reason for this rule was that the accused had to be physically present at assizes or quarter sessions.
stared hard at the accused
He was placed under house arrest, accused of causing the crash and abandoning the liner while 300 passengers were allegedly still on board. Times, Sunday Times
The MVD file accused Konstantin Komarov of being the man who conceived the scam on Tsentralnaya's behalf. CHAMELEON
Within three years he had tired of Anne Boleyn and she was beheaded in 1536, accused of treason and adultery.
British forces are not accused of direct involvement in the alleged mistreatment. Times, Sunday Times
Honestly speaking though, I have to admit that if we didn't complain so much we just wouldn't be British - we might get accused of being fluent English speaking Belgians.
They may even accuse the child of disloyalty.
This time he is accused of a reckless disregard for double yellow lines. Times, Sunday Times
Minority voices on both sides will complain and accuse their governments of selling out.
Lawyers for the accused refuted the charges. Times, Sunday Times
That was said in the face of a statutory prohibition on commenting on the fact that the accused did not give sworn evidence.
The general is accused of conniving in a plot to topple the government.
The British too have been painted as villains, accused of using the trials as cover for a plot to shut down the island.
They accuse and defend, bicker and quarrel, and cannot seem to talk about their real feelings or listen to each other.
The accused was taken away in a police van.
On two separate but very well publicized occasions Errol Flynn was accused of statutory rape.
I think that even if there is a two-way system (so the child sees the person being accused), there could be a Sixth Amendment violation. The Volokh Conspiracy » Iowa Constitution’s Due Process Clause Bars Propensity-to-Commit-Crime Evidence
The school accused the Council of dragging its heels over a replacement for a flat roof which was constantly being patched up because of leaks.
The report accuses the ombudsman of ignoring evidence, dragging out investigations for years and being biased in favour of the NHS. Times, Sunday Times
And in Bret Favre's case, he's accused of sexually harassing an employee, which is ... A 'Hereafter' Where Matt Damon Sees Dead People
The WTO has been accused of giving too much room for multinational corporations to expand their businesses without proper control.
The witness deposed that she had seen the accused on the day of the murder.
A homeless man accused of trying to steal a hat at a convenience store battled three deputies in a brawl, grabbed at a deputy's handgun and had to be shocked with a stun gun twice before he was arrested, according to a Marion sheriff's report.
Elsie Frost was the only one who did not accuse her parents of extra-marital carryings-on. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
They were accused of the stubborn refusal to accept Christ's Godhead and His sacrifice.
They confronted the prisoner with his accusers.
The accused brought forth a letter in court that he claims exonerates him
Read in studio A man has appeared in court accused of causing the death of a pensioner by dangerous driving.
Also patron of childbirth, the falsely accused, midwives, and pregnant women.
He accused them of sandbagging him by not fully explaining what they intended to do.
The government accused unnamed "foreign interests" of inciting the trouble.
In the Quran he is not thrown into jail after being falsely accused of attempted rape as the Bible relates.
It's natural to react with disbelief if your child is accused of bullying.
Pope gained but little in the warfare he waged with him, for this plain reason -- that the great poet accuses his adversary of dullness, which was not by any means one of his sins, instead of selecting one of the numerous faults, such as pertness, petulance, and presumption, of which he was really guilty. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield
He was accused of sacrificing all, including justice, to his insatiable ambition.

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