The phrase 'hold them guilty' is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It typically implies that someone is responsible for a mistake or a crime. For example: "The jury held them guilty for the murder of the victim in cold blood."
All of which sounds terribly dark and moody, except that, unlike Dostoyevsky's, McCarthy's characters are shallow, cartoonish figures -- brilliantly, cuttingly sketched, but sadly incapable of bearing the weight of the grave vices of which she held them guilty.
Make the manufacturers liable; hold them accountable where they are guilty of wrongdoing in the same way every other American industry is treated; make it cost them money, and you will see a precipitous change in gun violence.
While it is unclear as of Friday evening who exactly is responsible for Friday's attacks, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg vowed in an address to the nation that "we will find the guilty and hold them responsible". "No one will bomb us to silence.
If there are guilty parties, we will hold them accountable either by sanction or ballot.
A few months after their escape, the criminal court of Nouakchott found Ahmed Ould El Hassine guilty of holding them captive and denying them education.
The jurors hold up "guilty" or "not guilty" placards toward the end of the hour.
Still, I remain optimistic that the church -- my church -- will ultimately protect the innocent and hold the guilty accountable.
Evils of suicide bombings must now be evident to those who hold Israel guilty for the troubles in the Middle East.
Political prisons, they said, also now hold "anyone guilty of political or ideological crimes or even suspected of disloyalty," adding that the system shows "little pretense of due process".
