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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alleged instance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a situation or event that is claimed to have occurred but has not been proven or confirmed.
Example: "The investigation focused on the alleged instance of misconduct reported by several witnesses."
Alternatives: "purported case" or "claimed occurrence".
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The college decided to drop the Title IX charges, but it terminated the professor anyway for not living up to its standard of conduct, citing an alleged instance of public drunkenness (which he denies), his use of profanity (an e-mail in which he used the term "bullshit"), and what the college deemed to be immoral correspondence with a woman who had no connection to the school.
Police officials in all three states reported that they were "seldom summoned to a nursing home following an alleged instance of abuse," the study said.
Although Attorney General John Ashcroft deserves credit for initiating an investigation into the alleged instance of police brutality, he certainly did not send "the right message" in doing so.
In one alleged instance, he talked his way into a family holiday at a resort in Mauritius by fibbing about being ill with leukemia to an unwitting travel agent.
(For one alleged instance of this sort, involving SDS spy Jim Boyling in a prosecution of pro-cycling protesters, see this and this). Ellison also says that on occasions, the SDS knew that evidence advanced by prosecutors against campaigners was false, but did nothing.
He said even though the alleged instance may have not added to customers' bills, it was still damaging: "There's certainly a link.
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This investigation identified forty-four (44) alleged instances or events of detainee abuse committed by M.P. and M.I. soldiers, as well as civilian contractors.
" A dossier of evidence documenting alleged instances of anti-semitic behaviour at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) has been compiled and delivered to Colin Bundy, the head of the school, with a threat that legal action could follow should he not take action to implement his own anti-discrimination rules.
The 27-page complaint details alleged instances of wrongdoing over the course of several years, starting in 2005.
Editors of Conservapedia also maintain a page titled "Examples of Bias in Wikipedia" that compiles alleged instances of bias or errors on Wikipedia pages.
Evidence shows that the accounting fraud was discovered as early as June 2001, when several former employees gave statements alleging instances of hiding bad debt, understating costs, and backdating contracts.
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