Sentence examples for accuser for from inspiring English sources

Father Anderson wanted more: permission to sue his accuser for defamation, as few priests had done.

On trial for rape, in 2006, he blamed his accuser for wearing a short skirt.

(The charges against Strauss-Khan were dropped; he admitted to an "inappropriate" liaison but denied any violence, and settled with the accuser for an undisclosed sum).

Andrew Wakefield has become one of the most reviled doctors of his generation, blamed directly and indirectly, depending on the accuser, for irresponsibly starting a panic with tragic repercussions: vaccination rates so low that childhood diseases once all but eradicated here — whooping cough and measles, among them — have re-emerged, endangering young lives.

*** As a young cavalry officer, the Old Harrovian Winston Churchill was accused of having "participated in acts of gross immorality of the Oscar Wilde type" with fellow cadets at Sandhurst; but he successfully sued his accuser for libel, and there is no evidence that, as an adult, he engaged in physical homosexual relationships.

In June last year, the Long Beach polytechnic high school district successfully sued the mother of Banks's accuser for the return of $1.5m£890,00000) – plus another $1.1m in legal fees and damages – which the latter had received following claims that the school campus was unsafe.

There are so many people — like R. Kelly's many, many accusers — for whom the power imbalance between accuser and accused has seemed insurmountable.

It countersued its accusers for defamation.

Mr. Taylor, who has represented Mr. Burge's accusers for two decades, was in court when Mr. Burge broke down.

Other athletes have ferociously denied allegations, and pursued their accusers, for far longer and with far more false indignation.

Every comment blaming Cosby's accusers for what was done to them has done immeasurable harm to all victims of sexual violence.