The phrase 'prefer charges' is correct and usable in written English.
You would typically use this phrase when talking about an individual or organization filing a formal complaint or accusation. For example, you could say: "The prosecutor is deciding whether or not to prefer charges against the suspect."
Then two young men, Robert Collier, publisher of Collier's and Collier's editor, Norman Hapgood, were advised by William Travers Jerome to needle the pair in print until they felt bound to prefer charges of criminal libel, even at the risk of subjecting themselves to public cross-examination as prosecution witnesses.
Yet when his friend and financial adviser, Schabir Shaik, was charged in 2003 with corruption and fraud over a $5 billion government arms deal, the NPA announced oddly that, though it had a "prima facie" case against Mr Zuma, it did not feel it had a "winnable case", so it would not prefer charges.
While recuperating, Goodier assisted Dodd and 1st Lt. Walter Taliaferro in an attempt to prefer charges against Cowan for fraudulently collecting flight pay when he was neither certified to fly nor on flying duty.
For the same electricity price EV owners prefer charging at the beginning of low price intervals to achieve higher SOC levels earlier and increase a vehicle's range for spontaneous trips.
Similarly, lower fractions of SCRs prefer charged residues (aspartic acid: 37.32%, glutamic acid: 35.50%, histidine: 24.20% and arginine: 35.37%) as their structural neighbor.
The tendency to retain Cys at these two positions may indicate some importance for these two polar residues in mouse Pgp, while other orthologues prefer charged Asp (34%) and Arg (49%) residues.
"The prosecution have preferred charges relating to certain technical offences, which are firmly denied and will be contested".
Moreover, if the expert prefers charging the low over charging the high price when he solves the major problem, then he also prefers solving the consumerʼs major problem over letting it unsolved.
"I prefer ongoing charges because the focus is on the costs you are likely to bear in the future.
In a survey conducted in the United States, 81% of surveyed consumers would prefer to charge from home rather than in public charging stations.
Since most PEV owners prefer to charge their vehicles at home [4], only the charging behaviors occurring at home are studied in this paper.
