Oscar Wilde's short story "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" is a clever mystery, written to indict the fate industry — the palmists, spiritualists and telepathists, frauds every one of the them, with whom late-19th-century aristocrats seemed so enthralled.
Mr. Moore offered a sample from his act: "I keep reading that they can't find any written evidence to indict Martha Stewart".
She doesn't use this term to defend police departments; on the contrary, she uses it to indict them, writing about all the cruelty and misery that flourishes in a place where there is no "state monopoly on violence".
"While the settlement with HSBC is a major victory for the government, the case raises questions about whether certain financial institutions, having grown so large and interconnected, are too big to indict," DealBook writes.
Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.
The foundation had written to Stephen to say that its goal was not to indict him; it simply wanted to clarify the rights of scholars.
Writing about a tabloid crime that seemed to indict England's lower classes, Mr. Jones declares, "The episode was like a flare, momentarily lighting up a world of class and prejudice in modern Britain".
"Now there is a federal grand jury sitting attempting to come up with something to indict me on," Sterling wrote.
In January 2010, however, the prosecutor working with the A.T.F. on the investigation wrote that there was not yet enough evidence to indict anyone, the newly disclosed documents show.
