Sentence examples for charge of guilt from inspiring English sources

In a half-hour program, Murrow, as narrator, presented the entire history of the affair and sketched the dilemma of a man faced with a particularly egregious charge of guilt by association.

A similar charge of guilt by philosophical association animates "Heidegger's Children," although here the accused parties also had personal (and, in one case, sexual) dealings with the chief offender.

You would think the left would be more sensitive to charges of guilt by association – since when did marching in a demonstration mean you signed on to everything its supporters support?

The political discourse is so overrun with negative ads and charges of guilt by association that voters can be forgiven for confusing which candidate is supposedly akin to Britney Spears and which one seems too close to President Bush, or who smeared whom with lipstick slurs.

However, of more concern are a few die-hard partisans who use charges of guilt by association to try to muddy up the first African-American nominee of a major party.

Lord Birkenhead indeed saw clearly that a charge of war guilt involves a record of national policies, and that such a record may not leave unscathed the reputations of the prosecuting governments.

The officers in charge were cleared of guilt.

In October 1940, after the French collapse in World War II, Blum was indicted by the Vichy government on charges of war guilt, and in February 1942 he was brought to trial at the court of Riom.

Both aid for poor countries and welfare for the needy in the first world elicit the moralising charge of preying on guilt – or what Nick Clegg calls a "giant cheque written by the state to compensate the poor for their predicament".

In 1966, the Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council released its "Declaration of the Jews," a document that repudiated "the ancient charge of collective Jewish guilt in the death of Jesus".

It's important to note a formal charge is not proof of guilt and Rothenberg has not made any admission of guilt under these proceedings.