Sentence examples for flimsy charges from inspiring English sources

The police sometimes sling managers into jail on flimsy charges.

So he went to jail, on flimsy charges of tax evasion.

The men, all members of the Egyptian parliament, were arrested on flimsy charges, tried and imprisoned.

Many black activists were goaded into conflicts with the police and framed on flimsy charges.

Some of Pillai's colleagues had been arrested in Mahan on flimsy charges that never stuck.

He has harassed or shut down non-governmental organisations, put opposition leaders on trial and had pop-star protesters jailed on flimsy charges.

In team sports, it is a flimsy charge.

The pretext was a flimsy charge of involvement in a murder, upheld by a kangaroo court of military officers.

The one in "Virgo" is relatively high-end because he held a job as a newspaper editor in Oregon, despite "one flimsy charge of harassment stemming from an honest misunderstanding involving the women's restroom".

Last month's banning of Hadep, the country's largest pro-Kurdish party, on the flimsy charge that it was acting as a front for the Kurdistan Workers Partyy (PKK), the main separatist guerrilla group in Turkey, hardly seems to bear that out, but that case against Hadep was in fact launched under a previous government.

"The army tried to dictate its will and the people said no and what's happened since shows that the army is losing its power," notes an EU diplomat in Ankara.Undeterred, in 2008 the generals tacitly backed the country's chief prosecutor, Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya, when he tried to persuade the constitutional court to ban the AK party on the flimsy charge that it was seeking to reverse secular rule.