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  • "For the record," he began after settling Natalie in her seat at the luncheon table, "the name you read in the newspapers after my alleged death is my real name.†   (source)
  • For reasons previously suggested it would not perhaps be easy at the present day directly to prove or disprove the allegation.   (source)
    allegation = something asserted (said), but not proven
  • It was impossible but he should conceive some suspicion of two men lying all day concealed in a thicket and having no business to allege.   (source)
    allege = claim (assert without proof)
  • Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts ... allege that ... the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head,   (source)
    allege = claim (say without proof)
  • when he had been arrested and tortured for his alleged complicity in the Boscoli conspiracy.   (source)
    alleged = said
  • The sheriff parked his rig at the beginning of the fire tower lane so they wouldn't drive over any evidence of someone driving the night of the alleged murder.†   (source)
  • Hospital number 6 denies the allegations.†   (source)
  • If the allegation was true, it would explain Sasaki's mysterious trips to Torrance.†   (source)
  • It was whispered about that all was not as it appeared: some even hinted that Father had set the fire himself, a slanderous allegation.†   (source)
  • Naturally, there would have to be a word or two of self-recrimination, but first he cursed Marina and the alleged pleasures of simple games.†   (source)
  • Admittedly, there is an industry of conspiracy-mongers and fringe lunatics writing about all manner of idiocy, from Obama's alleged religious leanings to his ancestry.†   (source)
  • Several months later there was a second child-parent murder in our area: this time the victim was a Highlands Ranch woman allegedly killed by her seventeen-year-old son and stuffed in the trunk of the family car.†   (source)
  • — Mohabbat reported that Myers "categorically denied having anything to do with the alleged crime.†   (source)
  • They were called Scud or Trig, and flexed bits of body at one another, displaying injuries or alleged muscle growth.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Collet realized, if Langdon were innocent, it explained one of this case's strangest paradoxes: Why had Sophie Neveu, the granddaughter of the victim, helped the alleged killer escape?†   (source)
  • (SHE takes off glasses and looks at jury) Where was Steve Harmon, the alleged lookout man†   (source)
  • A Ministry official emerged some time after the appearance of the Dark Mark alleging that nobody had been hurt, but refusing to give any more information.†   (source)
  • "Alleged stunt," Mitch said, raising a finger.†   (source)
  • There was no proof of that allegation, however, and neither of the two witnesses had ever been used in court.†   (source)
  • The Darren Wilden she remembered allegedly slept with the whole girls' diving team and was almost kicked out of school for stealing the principal's vintage Ducati motorcycle.†   (source)
  • If Patrick could find evidence to back up Josie's allegations, then it would soften the blow for her on the stand-and make him a hero in Alex's eyes.†   (source)
  • —FOR THEIR ALLEGED 'OVERT INDISCRETIONS'; I BELIEVE THE TWO INCIDENTS FALL UNDER THE PUNISHABLE OFFENSE OF 'MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE CONDUCT WITH GIRLS.'†   (source)
  • The total damage included one stomach pumped, three breakups of long-term relationships, one lost diamond earring, four outrageous hotel-room parties, and five matching tattoos allegedly decorating the behinds of the senior class officers.†   (source)
  • Firstly that you were the familiar friend and companion of the Widow Hannah Tupper of Blackbird Pond, an alleged witch who has within the past week disappeared in a suspicious manner.†   (source)
  • —pected that a man by the name of Logan Tanner, a Lunar doctor who worked under the reign of Queen Channary, first brought Princess Selene to Earth approximately four months after her alleged death.†   (source)
  • Nor, though he knew it to be untrue, did Comrade Pillai refute the allegation of attempted rape in Baby Kochamma's First Information Report.†   (source)
  • That woman, however, turned into a mere pest under his searching scrutiny, and the child she had allegedly been afflicting recovered her normal behavior after Hale had given her his kindness and a few days of rest in his own house.†   (source)
  • Some of us still remember the rumors of Abby Tamblin Elea, who allegedly poisoned her husband, Prince Justin Illea, only a few years into their marriage before agreeing to marry his cousin, Porter Schreave, thus keeping the royal line intact.†   (source)
  • It was their Bible, containing, as it allegedly did, the history of their race and the commandments that governed their extended lives.†   (source)
  • I thought maybe—as he was such a good friend to Albus—maybe Scorpius might want to stay over part of the Christmas break or ...My owl came back with a letter containing one simple sentence: "Tell your husband to refute these allegations about my son once and for all."†   (source)
  • Withholding my alleged paycheck for some imaginary infraction.†   (source)
  • We allege criminal misconduct; we shout about antitrust; we sue for ancient and dubious liabilities.†   (source)
  • Since my opinion of the Capitol and its noble president are already so low, I can't say Finnick's allegations shock me.†   (source)
  • Thus Willow Marks's early procedure, and the graffiti scrawled on her house; thus the fact that Chelsea Bronson was kicked out of school after allegedly being found breaking curfew with a boy from Spencer, and her parents were mysteriously fired, and her whole family was forced to vacate their house.†   (source)
  • The diary alleges abuse and your fears that Nick didn't want the baby, that he might want to kill you.†   (source)
  • My father faced a pile of criminal charges, including the alleged stealing of school funds.†   (source)
  • Their allegations against the government were lies.†   (source)
  • Worst of all, he said, not only had she made no attempt to deny these allegations, she wrote poems about them.†   (source)
  • What we have to work with is hints and allegations, really, evidence, sometimes only a trace, that points to something lying behind the text.†   (source)
  • No, no. The niece is insulted or assaulted—allegedly.†   (source)
  • Two days later, Friday the thirteenth, six hundred men gathered at the park to protest McArthur's use of what they alleged were "imported" workers.†   (source)
  • One of Italy's main players was Giancarlo Marocchino, who left Italy, following allegations of tax evasion and married a Somali woman in one of Aidid's clans.†   (source)
  • But it is meaningless to allege that we have experienced the laws of nature.†   (source)
  • "Sources close to the Hipwell investigation" claim an allegation has been made that Megan "may have been involved in the unlawful killing of her own child" ten years ago.†   (source)
  • The other will proceed on the assumption that the letter from—allegedly from—Captain Ramius was genuine.†   (source)
  • You have been identified as an Investigatory Focus of a Registered Criminal Event that is alleged to have taken place on another territory, namely, The Mews at Windsor Heights.†   (source)
  • Specious allegations get us nowhere.†   (source)
  • And no amount of poison about our alleged brutality, disregard of the Geneva Convention, and abuse of the human rights of terrorists is going to change what most people think.†   (source)
  • Luma was doubly offended by what the allegation said about her intelligence.†   (source)
  • The evidence gathered at Mudd's farm, plus alleged sightings of the fugitives southwest of his farm, suggested that the assassins were making for Virginia.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza had not yet finished his sixty days of seclusion when Justice published a front-page story, complete with photographs of the two protagonists, about the alleged secret love affair between Dr. Juvenal Urbino and Lucrecia del Real del Obispo.†   (source)
  • The story followed that of a suicide bombing in Jerusalem and the news that the government had appointed a commission to investigate the alleged formation of a new cartel within the construction industry.†   (source)
  • Legally: an action falling between a loose verbal allegation and a formal charge of crime.†   (source)
  • She refused comment on further torturous physical abuse allegations, for which, among other charges, Byrnes has been found guilty in superior court and sentenced to more than 20 years in the state penitentiary at Walla Walla.†   (source)
  • Allegedly, it could get almost opaque in the autumn months.†   (source)
  • Since this allegation falls very directly into my own realm, I am able to refute it with absolute authority.†   (source)
  • In their lawsuit the women alleged that supervisors at a Monfort plant in Cactus, Texas, pressured them for dates and sex, and that male coworkers groped them, kissed them, and used animal parts in a sexually explicit manner.†   (source)
  • The Orders for deportation purport to be based on alleged requests to be sent to Japan.†   (source)
  • Naeema Azar, a real estate agent, was burned with acid in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, allegedly by her ex-husband.†   (source)
  • We can use the principal's office for a few minutes so that you can brief me about whatever allegations have been made.†   (source)
  • Bess Hartman looked at the mother, as if expecting her to deny the daughter's allegation.†   (source)
  • "1 f Washington is the general I take him to be," one of them, Sir William Erskine, is alleged to have commented, "he will not be found in the morning."†   (source)
  • Photographs, surveillance reports, detailed allegations, linked names, transcribed tapes—wiretaps, bugs, break-ins.†   (source)
  • Sorcery is, at bottom, the Haitians' way of explaining suffering, but the allegations themselves can cause suffering.†   (source)
  • And I, allegedly being a good Mormon girl, was supposed to keep my feminine thoughts pure.†   (source)
  • Still, allegations of match rigging do occasionally find their way into the Japanese media.†   (source)
  • He told her he knew she was not telling the truth because his deputies were working drug surveillance at the crossroads where she said her children were stolen, the night of the alleged abduction.†   (source)
  • Then let's have the plaintiff's allegations.†   (source)
  • A female prisoner who alleges sexual misconduct on the part of a guard is invariably locked in the SHU in "protective custody," losing her housing assignment, program activities (if there are any), work assignment, and a host of other prison privileges, not to mention the comfort of her routine and friends.†   (source)
  • There had been a few alleged sightings of Nicholas Jenks in Tiburon down by the marina, and south of Market, huddled around a gathering of homeless men.†   (source)
  • Nothing was offered to substantiate these allegations, but that was not unusual in the suing business.†   (source)
  • The list of alleged associations goes on and on.†   (source)
  • My client has not confirmed those allegations.†   (source)
  • You're making some very serious allegations-surely you have a credible source.†   (source)
  • He instanced the "alleged distinction" between masterly and masterful.†   (source)
  • This one, despite the murderous treatment it got at the hands of those alleged mechanics, seems to have recovered and has been requiring fewer and fewer repairs as time goes on.†   (source)
  • And what alleged process of thought led to that brilliant pronouncement?†   (source)
  • The alleged trap, monsieur.†   (source)
  • It is simply another fact that casts aspersions on their alleged origins as landino slaves.†   (source)
  • Those accused ranged from an anarchist group called the Societe Internationale to a disgruntled fire extinguisher salesman who, it was alleged, was upset at sluggish sales and decided to demonstrate for Chicago why his product was vital.†   (source)
  • —,: An Arizona highway patrol officer was allegedly involved in the death today of five persons in a highway diner.†   (source)
  • I disputed the allegations of the state that the aims and objects of the ANC and the Communist Party were one and the same.†   (source)
  • The CIA learned of Ahmed al-Kuwaiti after the interrogation of a man named Mohammed al-Qahtani, a Saudi citizen and the alleged twentieth hijacker on September 11, 2001.†   (source)
  • As witness our great industries-the only accomplishment of our alleged civilization-built by vulgar materialists with the aims, the interests and the moral sense of hogs.†   (source)
  • His hard line was also meant to draw attention from the more pointed talk of his alleged adultery with a woman whose name was now public, rumors he was saying were the work of certain political opportunists.†   (source)
  • It is a matter of dispute among historians whether the accusers focused more attention on the alleged religious crimes, or the alleged political crimes, of Socrates.†   (source)
  • "They're not for sale at any price," their alleged owner announced.†   (source)
  • Lou picked up the box and took out the lump of coal, the one allegedly containing the diamond.†   (source)
  • [Article 1, Section 8] Some people have attacked the language that defines the taxation power, saying it amounts to an unlimited license to use any and every power that may be alleged to be necessary for the common defense or general welfare†   (source)
  • The list contains all the names of alleged members of The Ten and the names of the boys they have run out of school for the past thirty years.†   (source)
  • On the third of October Comrade Mundt made a clandestine journey to Finland—once more allegedly in the interests of the Abteilung.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, well Tony Jaguar, my client, supplied some bones," said Di Presso, "he alleges.†   (source)
  • Worth, Texas, when it was alleged that Oklahoma City was in flames and carloads were converging on those two cities.†   (source)
  • What do you know regarding this alleged slaying?†   (source)
  • The plot is cute and complex, having largely to do with an alleged conspiracy on the part of Brandon Strathaway—Willard's tycoon father—to dispose of old Ezra, whose hideously mutilated corpse is indeed found one morning in the entrails of a mechanical cranberry picker.†   (source)
  • Any testimony relating to his alleged infringement of the law must be admitted!†   (source)
  • —yes, had gotten slapped by Maddie, allegedly for trying to bite her.†   (source)
  • How often before, at such moments, moments allegedly of triumph, boredom had fallen on me!†   (source)
  • He had heard that this alleged Buddha used to be an ascetic before and had lived in the forest, but had then turned back to luxury and worldly pleasures, and he had no high opinion of this Gotama.†   (source)
  • Yet, with tears pouring down his face he kept hold of the handle of the locked door, shutting out the child, sacrificing him to a false notion of honor, in the name of his alleged duty to another woman, who was not the child's mother and who might at any moment come into the room from another door.†   (source)
  • Collins is reported by Dr. Strickland to have expired shortly following his discovery, alleging his death to chest wounds.†   (source)
  • As our relations with Great Britain worsened, our ships were seized, our cargoes were confiscated, and our seamen were "impressed" by British cruisers and compelled to serve—as alleged British subjects—in the King's navy.†   (source)
  • Ralph Myers began to have second thoughts about his allegations against McMillian.†   (source)
    allegations = claims (things said, and in need of being proven or disproven)
  • Walter vehemently denied both allegations.†   (source)
  • Of their target, the alleged Saudi national Omar al-Farouk, they had caught not a glimpse.†   (source)
    alleged = said
  • Some jurors indicated that they found allegations of killing a child so disturbing that they could not honor the presumption of innocence.†   (source)
    allegations = claims (things said, and in need of being proven or disproven)
  • Were any of the allegations you made against Walter McMillian as being involved in the Ronda Morrison murder true?†   (source)
  • A few days before the capital murder charges against McMillian were made public, Myers summoned police investigators and told them his allegations against McMillian weren't true.†   (source)
  • She had had no legal help; because of defects in her pleadings and the allegations she made in her complaint, we could secure only a small settlement judgment for her.†   (source)
  • Ralph Myers's story of the crime was pretty far-fetched; his knack for dramatic embellishment made even the most basic allegations unnecessarily complicated.†   (source)
  • '(For a full account of Madam Marchbanks's alleged links to .†   (source)
  • It was an unnecessary allegation, because Arcadio had not come to do justice.†   (source)
  • Burke was right beside him, clearly trying to buddy up to the alleged leader of the pack.†   (source)
  • Therefore, it is a simple fact: there was not enough time for her to commit this alleged crime.†   (source)
  • He has been in phone contact twice now with the alleged Illuminati assassin.†   (source)
  • I hardly think such an allegation is at issue.†   (source)
  • This is the grandfather clock Danny Hansford allegedly knocked over.†   (source)
  • SNAPE: These are very dangerous allegations, boy.†   (source)
  • There was nothing in our family that couldn't be improved by a cup of tea, allegedly.†   (source)
  • If the dollars are causing you to make all these allegations, keep the damn dollars!†   (source)
  • He declared the allegations unfounded and said that the documentation referred to was fabricated.†   (source)
  • PROCES VERBAL: a semiformal report alleging a crime against the Imperium.†   (source)
  • Allegedly, it is a book of Jesus' teachings, possibly written in His own hand.†   (source)
  • 'What he allegedly did,' Selena automatically corrected.†   (source)
  • Allegedly the entrance has been covered with an enormous stone.†   (source)
  • I'm sure that was what Arcadio meant," she alleged.†   (source)
  • "So you appear to have been quite mistaken in your allegations," Caius began.†   (source)
  • The POW had called the police, who'd arrested the alleged war criminal.†   (source)
  • Then along comes this know-it-all who tries to destroy it all with his 'philosophical' allegations.†   (source)
  • So where does this alleged weight come from?†   (source)
  • Allegedly, this inscription, whatever it said, would bring order from this chaos.†   (source)
  • If you can't prove your allegations by Friday afternoon you're fired.†   (source)
  • Dozens of men were lined up and clubbed in the knees for one man's alleged infraction.†   (source)
  • They allegedly contain proof that Jesus had a royal bloodline?†   (source)
  • It was alleged the woman tangoed all the way to police headquarters recently when she was arrested.†   (source)
  • They're only alleged to be heinous and evil by the criminals, Bella.†   (source)
  • Milton's alleged affiliation with Galileo's Illuminati was one legend Langdon suspected was true.†   (source)
  • The alleged assassination implies a much deeper infiltration of Vatican City than we had imagined.†   (source)
  • All the brokers were invited to comment on the allegations.†   (source)
  • Up until then, the papers had more or less decided to ignore the Millennium allegations.†   (source)
  • Myers testified this man had black-gray hair and allegedly talked to McMillian.†   (source)
  • The prosecution's only evidence was the sheriff's testimony regarding George's alleged confession.†   (source)
  • There are layers of proven conspiracy and alleged conspiracy that will disturb you.†   (source)
  • A fraud and murder investigation into the alleged suicide of a prominent local banker.†   (source)
  • He sounds like the right man to investigate the allegations against Salander.†   (source)
  • Looking back, he saw this as a typical event in the annals of such allegations.†   (source)
  • But as to this alleged physiological phenomenon—it is not a legal matter.†   (source)
  • Or anything which might lessen the alleged offense?†   (source)
  • Richter, "are you innocent or guilty of the allegations made here today?"†   (source)
  • Some had heard the alleged value, but they still wanted to see it in black and white.†   (source)
  • "Well," Andrews allegedly said, "it sure strikes me a hard way to do it.†   (source)
  • You can't see much in that alleged mirror, but you're okay.†   (source)
  • That's what Blomkvist at Millennium is evidently alleging.†   (source)
  • But denying any allegations made by me isn't the core of your dilemma.†   (source)
  • Her alleged murderer confessed and was sentenced to life in prison after a psychiatric evaluation.†   (source)
  • The Gospel of Luke was allegedly written by a doctor.†   (source)
  • Allegations that may harm someone's reputation are presumed to be false.†   (source)
  • The most obvious is of course the description of the alleged rape by her guardian Advokat Bjurman.†   (source)
  • It cleared a little and reminded me of pictures alleged to be ectoplasm.†   (source)
  • Page after page of allegations, some of them wild, some of them true.†   (source)
  • The allegation, which was untrue, irritated the detectives into expounding very convincing denials.†   (source)
  • They had no firsthand knowledge of his alleged closeness to Lettie.†   (source)
  • Then identify the people who are allegedly tailing this guy Blomkvist.†   (source)
  • I had to make sure that Salander had the history she was alleged to have.†   (source)
  • In other words, you are alleging that your guardian forced himself on you.†   (source)
  • In the film, the alleged witches swear their innocence before a noncompassionate judge.†   (source)
  • This happened in Cedar Rapids when Des Moines was allegedly in flames.†   (source)
  • Another of the allegations in the indictment is that Rivonia was the headquarters of Umkhonto.†   (source)
  • I wish to turn now to certain general allegations made in this case by the State.†   (source)
  • The article noted that some of Annie's alleged victims had even lived long enough to be given real names.†   (source)
  • Mind you, if all the alleged sightings of him are genuine, we must have a good nineteen You-Know-Whos running around the place.†   (source)
  • The stone's alleged engraving was still lodged in Langdon's memory ....and yet the seven symbols, as far as he could tell, made no sense together at all.†   (source)
  • Tessa Tamble—who had allegedly given a show at Celeste's last birthday party—was there in a very short but glamorous dress.†   (source)
  • "Mr. Philby," a reporter asks, "Mr. Macmillan, the foreign secretary, said there was no evidence that you were the so-called third man who allegedly tipped off Burgess and Maclean.†   (source)
  • Langdon flashed on the alleged Illuminati fortunes, the ancient wealth of the Bavarian stone masons, the Rothschilds, the Bilderbergers, the legendary Illuminati Diamond.†   (source)
  • A rising union man named Samuel Gompers stopped by Burnham's office to discuss allegations that the exposition discriminated against union workers.†   (source)
  • In East L.A., a group calling itself the Chicano Liberation Front had allegedly planted bombs in power stations and government buildings.†   (source)
  • Yet he denied the allegations in a 1982 palimony suit that he had paid for the sexual services of a male employee—a former valet and live-in chauffeur.†   (source)
  • Atto allegedly used income from drug trafficking (mostly khat), arms trafficking, looting, and kidnapping to buy more weapons and support for Aidid's militia.†   (source)
  • There's no way of knowing how the young man's fate—or Gerali's life—might have turned out differently if the alleged shooter had stayed with the Fugees, but the incident was a painful reminder of what was at stake in Clarkston each day.†   (source)
  • In place of the burgundy chaise where the old Pole had allegedly reclined, there were now three gray filing cabinets with stainless-steel locks standing at attention.†   (source)
  • "In the sixteenth century, Saint Louis Bertrand allegedly used the gift of tongues to convert somewhere between thirty thousand and three hundred thousand South American Indians to Christianity," the Librarian says.†   (source)
  • But I do know this: "Bloody Breathitt" allegedly earned its name because the county filled its World War I draft quota entirely with volunteers—the only county in the entire United States to do so.†   (source)
  • We knew he wouldn't give up; every few months he would fill out another Personnel Action Form, requesting a new assignment—and he claimed that Colonel Eiger had provided him with the name and telephone number of someone in the Pentagon, a certain major who allegedly supervised the personnel files and assignments of the junior officers.†   (source)
  • It's the bullying, allegedly, that makes the school shooter snap one day and fight back with violence.†   (source)
  • In order to conjure away Fernanda's alleged curse, she told Aureliano Segundo that he should soak a broody hen and bury her alive under the chestnut tree, and he did it with such good faith that when he finished hiding the turned-up earth with dried leaves he already felt that he was breathing better.†   (source)
  • The therapist chronicled "outbursts" that I'd allegedly had, some going back to a time I couldn't remember—the time I threw a tantrum in a department store as a five-year-old, my fight with another child in school (the school bully, whom I didn't want to punch but did so at Mamaw's encouragement), the times I'd run from home to my grandparents' house because of Mom's "discipline."†   (source)
  • They were led to it by a man named Charles Chappell, alleged to have helped Holmes reduce corpses to bone.†   (source)
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