Accusers
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22 examples of Accusers in a sentence
She continued to insist she wasn’t a witch through 62 rounds of torture before her
accusers
finally released her.
Billy Crystal can be accused of presenting a heavily biased view of the Yankee summer of 1961, and his
accusers
would be right.
Bo dismissed one of his
accusers
as having “sold his soul.”
But his
accusers
– the two Swedish women who have brought the complaints against him – are consistently identified only as “Miss A” and “Miss W,” and their images are blurred.
The convention of not naming rape
accusers
is a relic of the Victorian period, when rape and other sex crimes were being codified and reported in ways that prefigure our own era.
The United States military, for instance, hides rape accusers’ identities, and the prevalence of rape in the US armed forces today is off the charts.
But in no other crime are
accusers
kept behind a wall of anonymity.
Why, for example, in a case that is so dependent on public opinion – and on which so much depends – must Assange face allegations that may have grave consequences for him, while his
accusers
remain hidden?
Likewise, adult
accusers
of Church-protected sex criminals knew that they would have to answer fundamental questions (notably, many of them have identified themselves, which has helped get real prosecutions).
It is wrong – and sexist – to treat female sex-crime
accusers
as if they were children, and it is wrong to try anyone, male or female, in the court of public opinion on the basis of anonymous accusations.
Anonymity for rape
accusers
is long overdue for retirement.
Trump’s third key defense is to turn allegations about his sanity against his
accusers
and political opponents.
The media tend to take
accusers
at their word, without regard for their credibility or the facts.
Some of the punk-feminists’ militant
accusers
saw in their choice of Christ the Savior a diabolical plot against not only Orthodoxy, but also Russia itself.
Trump, too, has doubled down on sexism, blaming the media for his travails and calling one of his
accusers
“that horrible woman,” adding, “Believe me, she would not be my first choice.”
In the Assange case, the Swedish police supported the
accusers
in legally unprecedented ways – for example, by allowing them to tell their stories together and by allowing testimony from a boyfriend.
Kavanaugh’s Senate defenders were mainly white men of the South and Midwest who deflected the questioning of Kavanaugh’s white male prerogative to drink and carouse as a young man by instead attacking the nominee’s
accusers.
Unfortunately, most female journalists bullied online are less willing to challenge their
accusers.
In a letter to The Financial Times, he said “my main
accusers
are precisely the same people who have blocked Ukraine’s transformation to a free economy” – condemning his critics for using Mr Gongadze’s death as “a political weapon designed to destabilize Ukraine”.
Reporters were tasked with discrediting
accusers.
I recall saying to Julian that, had it been me, I would want to confront my accusers, and listen to them carefully and respectfully, regardless of whether official charges had been brought.
So, here is an idea: Let us join forces to block Assange’s extradition from any European country to the US, so that he can travel to Stockholm and give his
accusers
an opportunity to be heard.
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