Sentence examples for persistent charge from inspiring English sources

A court cleared Mr. Walesa in 2000 of the persistent charge that he had worked as an agent known as "Bolek" for the secret police.

"It lays the groundwork for a broad political consensus at Copenhagen that will strip climate obstructionists here at home of their most persistent charge, that the United States shouldn't act if other countries won't join with us".

Other observers have linked that persistent charge to fear of The Other (first black president, after all).

Lord Coe has admitted his "frustration" at the failure to plan for a better legacy for school sport from the Olympics but defended 2012 organisers against persistent charges of a lack of transparency in its ticketing operation.

A15 Italian Film Faults U.S. Italian public television showed a scathing documentary renewing persistent charges that the United States used white phosphorus rounds, incendiary munitions that the film incorrectly called "chemical weapons," against Iraqis in Falluja last year.

Mr Moi's time in office has been marked by persistent charges of electoral fraud, human-rights abuse and government corruption, the very viruses that Nepad has pledged to remove from Africa.

He's also been dogged with persistent charges of environmental negligence.

Heightening the controversy have been persistent charges that the new majority is controlled by Vincent and Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Roosevelt Dorn, a longtime political figure in the city and uncle of board member Dorn.

Honoured for his services at William's coronation with the earldom of Marlborough, he served with further distinction in the early years of the Nine Years' War, but persistent charges of Jacobitism brought about his fall from office and temporary imprisonment in the Tower.

Excessive charges have been a persistent complaint since the earliest days of reform.

This raises the possibility of the country's most high-profile case in recent memory following the "Zuma route" – so named after the technicality by which President Jacob Zuma's persistent corruption charges were dismissed.