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Discover LudwigThe phrase "accusation upon" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts where one is referring to an accusation being made against someone or something.
Example: "The accusation upon him was unfounded and lacked evidence."
Alternatives: "accusation against" or "charge against".
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Nevertheless, when some accusation upon this ground was made against him to the censors, he desired leave to defend himself, and did it so effectually, that, when he ended, he was regarded as one who had been very much injured.
The significant and negative impact upon her reputation as an original and innovative thinker followed from Koenig's accusation, upon the publication of Du Châtelet's Foundations, that she had plagiarized his ideas within the text, though given the point made above, that Leibnizian ideas were already present in the text she wrote before Koenig's arrival, his charge seems misplaced.
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Since the beginning, the Heywood family has been largely silent, but the official version of events has heaped accusations upon him.
If, as some are now speculating, Trump just misunderstood the way that foreign intelligence is collected (presidents don't order such things, there is a process), but that Trump has at least something to base his accusations upon (if a Trump server was wiretapped, for instance), then Comey needs to clear that up as soon as possible.
'It is very certain, that the law obligeth no man to accuse himself; because the necessary means of compelling self-accusation, falling upon the innocent as well as the guilty, would be both cruel and unjust; and it should seem, that search for evidence is disallowed upon the same pinc iple.
Jones, however, decided to investigate the validity of accusations piled upon comics in his senior paper.
One of his targets, William Arderon, was so incensed that he penned an alternative title page to Hill's book turning all of Hill's accusations back upon him and lampooning the botanist as a 'herb gatherer'.
Steven M. Clayton Ocean, N.J. 'Avoid a Lynching Mentality' To the Sports Editor: I believe each player on Mitchell's list should be given an opportunity to defend himself against the accusations based upon the principle "innocent until proven guilty".
It's a peculiar moment of cinematic accusation that thrusts upon the viewer the moral onus of attention and inattention, of a gaze imbued with prejudices stoked both by sentiment and patriotic identification.
This entire discourse was based upon nothing but accusations, and based upon no evidence that Bergdahl's beard was somehow religiously connected, or that billions of people practice the Muslim faith with absolutely no connection to the Taliban or any form of extremism.
"There does seem to be a certain assumption that these people are guilty just based upon the accusation — and that's not true, and that's not fair," said David Schumacher, a lawyer for two of the parents, Gregory and Amy Colburn, who have proclaimed their innocence.
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