1. The local standing committee refused to prefer charges against him. 2. In private organizations, a motion to impeach can be used to prefer charges . 3. On Saturday, 31 December 1636, the Boston congregants met to prefer charges against Wilson. 4. Kearny left California on 31 May 1847 for St . Louis, with Fremont, whom he would prefer charges . 5. Kane denies permission to attack Schweinhafen again but Dennis blackmails him by threatening to prefer charges against Capt . Jenks. 6. The Marines'decision to prefer charges , based on the recommendation of an investigation board, comes as no surprise. 7. I did so and just before Lee rec'd the explanation he ordered S . to arrest me and prefer charges . 8. General Lee instructed Breckinridge to " prefer charges against him and bring him to trial . " However, such a trial never took place. 9. Unlike any other school district in New York State, no independent panel must vote to prefer charges against a tenured teacher in New York City. 10. The real Duke, heartily enlivened by the night s excitement, refuses to prefer charges and the would-be thief is allowed to go free.