The phrase "are implicated over" is not standard in written English and may lead to confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing involvement or responsibility in a situation, but it is better to clarify the relationship being described.
Example: "The officials are implicated over the financial scandal, raising questions about their integrity."
Alternatives: "are involved in" or "are associated with".
Other studies are implicating over- or underexpression of genes known to be involved in the body's circadian clock.
That came after a number of the sports' biggest stars were implicated over the last year in the federal investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or Balco.
Al-Liby - real name Nazih al-Ragye - has been implicated over the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 civilians.
The US secret service faced further damage on Friday when it emerged that three more agents are to leave and a twelfth employee has been implicated over the Colombia prostitution scandal.
His four-year tenure ended in 2009 when he was implicated over a fake blood injury to Quins player Tom Williams during a Heineken Cup defeat by Leinster.
Several Michigan basketball players were implicated over the next few years and by 1999 some were called before a federal grand jury.
Several Michigan basketball players were implicated over the next few years and by 1999 several were called before a federal grand jury.
Indeed, several viruses have been implicated over the years (Labrecque et al, 1995; Bonnet et al, 1999; Melana et al, 2007; Cox et al, 2010; Glenn et al, 2010; Ariad et al, 2011), but none have conclusively been demonstrated to be central to the disease process (Chu et al, 2001; Herrmann and Niedobitek, 2003; Murray, 2006; Larrey et al, 2010; Khan et al, 2011; Silva and da Silva, 2011).
Mammograms are implicated in the over-diagnosis and over-treatment of nearly one third of all newly diagnosed breast cancers.
Polymorphic MSs are significantly enriched within human genes involved in transcriptional regulation, chromatin remodeling, morphogenesis and neurogenesis (Legendre et al. 2007), and MS allele variants are implicated in over 40 human neurological/neuromuscular diseases (reviewed in Pearson et al. [2005]).
Questions of political philosophy are implicated in debates over the extent to which authorities may compel medication use by death row inmates, defendants awaiting trial, prisoners and in-patients in state hospitals.
