But the central charge of the Ballad is sympathy, sympathy with the condemned man and his fellow inmates.
Various reports claimed that Raja Pervaiz Ashraf had intervened to have the charges against the owners of the factory changed, with the central charge of murder left out.
And he repeatedly highlighted the fact that the comments were spoken, not written, as Eagleton wrongly claimed (which, in some degree, allowed Amis to dodge the central charge of Islamophobia).
Coincident with Lord Hutton's examination of witnesses last September, a report by the senior MPs of the Intelligence and Security Committee had already cleared the government of Mr Gilligan's central charge of turning the sober assessments of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), which brings together the heads of the country's intelligence services, into lurid propaganda.
It may not be quite on a par with the resignation speech of Margaret Thatcher's nemesis, Sir Geoffrey Howe, but its central charge of a chancellor abandoning wider principle in pursuit of deficit reduction strikes at the heart of a government of which until Friday night he was a senior member.
In a passionate speech to an auditorium full of covered female party members in Istanbul on Sunday, Mr. Erdogan emphasized that being religious did not preclude respecting the secular contours of Turkey's state, a central charge of the old-guard elite.
Dr. Kelly became involved after informing his managers that he had met with the BBC reporter who broadcast the disputed report but said he had not made the accusations of the government's deliberately mixing false claims into its intelligence dossier -- the central charge of the broadcast.
The central charge of the report, from the environmental audit committee, is that "the UK's finance ministry has undermined public trust in green taxes by appearing to use them as a revenue raising tool rather than a serious attempt to change environmentally damaging behaviour".
The committee cleared her of the central charge of deliberately submitting expenses claims to which she was not entitled, but said she had breached the ministers' code of conduct by providing "incomplete documentation and fragmentary information" to the inquiry.
This decision is a defeat for a minister who believes she has been found not guilty on the central charge of asking the taxpayer to pay for a home for her elderly parents.
