Sentence examples for controversial charges from inspiring English sources

Federal watchdogs have taken small steps to deal with these controversial charges.

Banks are grimly hanging on to £1.5 billion ($2.7 billion) in annual revenue that will be cut dramatically if the British consumer watchdog forces the world's two biggest credit-card associations and their bank members to reduce controversial charges.

"The Way of the World" has commanded headlines with its explosive (and controversial) charges of extreme Bush administration malfeasance — including still more misuse of prewar intelligence and an alleged forgery scheme that Suskind calls possible grounds for impeachment.

Among his more controversial charges are that she and Mr. Bush ignored warnings before Sept. 11, 2001, about the dangers of Al Qaeda, and, in the aftermath of the attacks, focused on Iraq rather than Osama bin Laden's network.

The film explores the controversial charges that Mr. Kissinger should be tried as a war criminal, an argument made by the journalist Christopher Hitchens in his book on the same subject.

One of the more controversial charges Mr. Gallagher made was to sarcastically portray Ms. Allen as Martha Stewart because she sponsored a $40 million bill to improve offices of the Department of Motor Vehicles offices.

Obviously, this was a controversial charge.

But this week, US federal prosecutors accepted a plea to the controversial charge of providing material support to terrorism, an offence that imposes guilt by association.

Instead, the US government pushed on, seeking a controversial charge of "aiding and abetting the enemy" – the most serious count of which he was eventually acquitted.

In his article, Goldstone backed away from a particularly controversial charge in the report – the allegation that Israel had an apparent high-level policy to target civilians.

To some legal experts, the most controversial charge is statutory rape — consensual sexual relations with an under-age partner — which was brought against Mr. Mulveyhill and Austin Renaud, who was 18 at the time.