8 sentences with 'accused'
Example sentences and phrases with the word accused and other words derived from it.
• « The New York Times condemned it as "clearly utopian," while The Wall Street Journal accused Ford of committing "nonsense, if not economic crimes." »
• « The Romans were the first to codify the idea that someone accused of a crime was innocent until proven guilty; this was a totally radical idea in the field of justice, which in the rest of the ancient world normally considered the accused guilty unless guilt could be conclusively disproved. »
• « Specifically, Galileo was accused of supporting a condemned doctrine, heliocentrism, not of heresy per se. »
• « While estimates vary considerably, between 35,000 and 55,000 accused enemies of the Revolution were executed or died in prison during this era, which was further intensified by widespread incarceration (totalling half a million people, 3% of the adult population). »
• « In turn, the Victorian bourgeoisie accused the working class of inherent weakness and vileness. »
• « The Dreyfus affair, in which a French Jewish army officer was falsely accused of treason, became a kind of prediction of civil war thanks to the enormous amount of press on both sides of the scandal. »
• « Jews were accused of being responsible for the death of Christ, were blamed for plagues and famines, and were even thought to practice black magic. »
• « In 1983, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an organisation called International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which was jointly founded by two physicians, one Soviet and one American. Those who protested against this award accused the Russian doctor of having supported Soviet policy in Afghanistan and of having contributed to isolating the Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov from the scientific community in his country. »