Sentence examples for accused in effect from inspiring English sources

A three-year-old lawsuit is coming to court in which he is accused, in effect, of stealing the idea for Facebook from three other Harvard students.

The battle for the leadership of the Labour party took an extraordinary twist on Saturday as Jeremy Corbyn's aides were accused in effect of breaking into the offices of a resigning shadow cabinet minister in a major breach of security and parliamentary privilege.

The officials were accused, in effect, of turning this city into their personal piggy bank: misappropriating $5.5 million in city money to enrich themselves with pumped-up salaries, illicit loans and big payments to attend committee meetings that lasted just a few minutes, if they were held at all.

After all, if the drugs giants stand accused, in effect, of bribing rivals to delay the launch of cheap generics, shouldn't the companies that accepted those "bribes" also share the blame?The real problem in Europe's generics markets is not that generic drugs arrive too slowly after branded drugs go off-patent, but that prices drop too slowly after generics are launched.

He accused Mr Abe and Mr Hagel, in effect, of ganging up to antagonise China.

But the latest scandal to rock the region centres on a Czech businessman and a former Prague mayor who are accused of in effect controlling the city's €2bn budget between them.

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The editorial accused Mr. Keating of "in effect calling all Catholics in a diocese to commit a mortal sin".

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The phrase "acts and conduct of the accused" in Rule 92bis is a plain expression and should be given its ordinary meaning: deeds and behaviour of the accused.

But supporters of Mr. Chirac have accused him of in effect secretly beginning a brutal 2002 election campaign.