The phrase "it is charged with" is used in written English and is sometimes used in a figurative sense.
For example: "This room is charged with excitement as everyone waits for the event to start".
As Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) pointedly observed at a recent hearing: "Of hundreds of thousands of sea mammals, the Navy is to be stopped from its research if it is charged with harassing one of them.
It is charged with curbing banks' risky impulses, yet its president is selected by and reports to a board dominated by the chief executives of some of those same banks.
It is charged with having used the euro to serve its interests and with shaping EU policy to protect its own corporations.
It is charged with maintaining order as the country prepares for its first elections in 2007.
Instead, it is charged with protecting the public interest.
It is charged with building a cultural centre in Dammam, along with 11 sports stadiums.
I don't know what to do with that fact, but it is charged with something.
If it is charged with misleading investors again, it will face much more severe penalties.
It is charged with killing 12 people so far this year, mostly politicians.
A self-described "manual for conscious being," it is charged with antic energy.
"It is charged with quasi-political messages and was almost certainly connected with the imperial household".
